#ode to freedom

[suzyhazelwood]

Abba are officially back... just for one more album. I love this track... Ode To Freedom.❤️ The intro sounds like a piece of music from the Nutcracker ballet. The full album is now out and also on YouTube.

[ladyorlandodream]

this song will heal your soul, trust me

[ladyorlandodream]

goosebumps

[artistrybyarielle]

ABBA: There is no ode to freedom truly worth remembering.

Me, crying: Are you sure?

[paleskin-fragilebones-blog]

We knew thee of old, O, divinely restored, By the lights of thine eyes, And the light of thy Sword. From the graves of our slain, Shall thy valour prevail, As we greet thee again, Hail, Liberty! Hail!

Rudyard Kipling - Ode to Freedom 

[thedissertationdetroit]

Intro Menu - Ode to Freedom - 1989 - Leonard Bernstein - Beethoven's 9th Symphony HD 720p (by OdetoClassical)

Leonard Bernstein's historical concert in celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has long become almost as legendary as the revolutionary moment that it celebrated. Recorded at the beautiful Schauspielhaus right on Gendarmenmarkt in the centre of Berlin on Christmas 1989, it has now become available on DVD, along with a short documentary film as bonus. The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 1989 unleashed a wave of democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe that radically transformed the world order and Leonard Bernstein spontaneously accepted an invitation to conduct a performance to mark this new era. It was only fitting that East Germany's new-found freedom should be celebrated with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The monumental work, perhaps the world's most famous Symphony, was inspired by Schiller's poem 'Ode to Joy', a passionate eulogy to freedom. Adding to the symbolism of the event, Bernstein conducted an orchestra and chorus formed from musicians from both East and West Germany (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden), as well as the United States (New York Philharmonic), Great Britain (London Symphony), France (Orchestre de Paris) and the Soviet Union (Orchestra of the Kirov Theater).

Not only was this moment momentous, but the fact that Beethoven composed Symphony No. 9 while almost completely deaf is a stupendous feat as well.

[holvv-blog]

An Ode to Freedom.

Lay me down on a bed of clover

And we'll read the stories of the sky.

Let our minds dance among the clouds

And let all our worries fly.

Our hearts will beat with Nature's

Across all the lands we'll roam

With only our dreams and a violin,

Nowhere to call our home.

We'll travel with the Gypsies

And dance beneath the stars.

Tell stories 'round a blazing fire

And sing the joy from our hearts.

To escape from society

And the expectations to conform,

You can truly live, do as you please.

Oh, the wonders of Freedom!