{"id":1915,"date":"2022-12-06T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.popularbeethoven.com\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:22:37","slug":"houston-we-have-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popularbeethoven.com\/houston-we-have-beethoven\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston, we have Beethoven!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On daily basis our minds are full with terrible news, scary events and life threatening human activities. Yes, news agencies make a living from delivering fear, but we must admit they have plenty to choose from!<\/p>\n

For this very reason, it was so refreshing to read about a news that is simply beautiful and noble! On the 1st December 2022, humans, instead of crushing each other\u2019s skull, decided to gather an orchestra, invite a retired world famous conductor and play some music in and for the universe!<\/p>\n

Popular Beethoven Magazine has a comprehensive article on NASA\u2019s Voyager I. and II. (space probes) that carry golden records<\/a> with images, music, sounds and greetings from the human race. These probes had been travelling from 1977 and already left the Solar-system into deep space. The longest music on the golden records is, of course, from our beloved composer Beethoven!<\/p>\n

|Related:<\/span> Interstellar Beethoven: the Golden Record in space<\/a><\/p>\n

This time, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA<\/a>) had a different idea. In a statement put out before the event they say:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe raging novel coronavirus that has spread around the world; the suffering, and sadness from the war in Europe\u2014as we face this difficult era, now is not the time for division; now is the time to help and cooperate with each other as fellow citizens of Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Music can transcend words, borders, ethnicities, and the atmosphere to directly connect the hearts of people.<\/em><\/p>\n

All of us as living beings on Earth are the same, and we are one.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Under the project name One Earth Mission<\/a>, they involved the famous Saito Kinen Orchestra,<\/a> 87-year-old Seiji Ozawa<\/a> (the renowned composer with 50 years of history behind him) and astronaut Koichi Wakata<\/a> from International Space Station<\/a>. The music they selected for the event is Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s \u201cEgmont\u201d Overture<\/a>, op. 84.<\/p>\n

This occasion was the first-ever, when a live orchestra played from Earth, to space!<\/p>\n

More on the event and video of the play at One Earth Mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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