North Idaho Philharmonia to perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Panida » Sandpoint Reader

North Idaho Philharmonia to perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Panida » Sandpoint Reader

By Zach HagadoneReader Staff There are few more monumental pieces of music — or any human art, really — than Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in D minor. Made all the more amazing, by the time it premiered in Vienna on May 7, 1824, the legendary-in-his-own-life composer was already stone deaf — a fact made clear when, at the conclusion of the work, Beethoven had to be prompted by his orchestra to turn around and face the roaring, rapturous …