Our invisible audience | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Fri, 13 Dec 2013 23:24:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Our invisible audience | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 In Which We Do not Hear the Cheers of our Invisible Audience https://anitamathias.com/2013/12/04/hear-cheers-invisible-audience/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/12/04/hear-cheers-invisible-audience/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:05:56 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=54796 Image by Lize Rixt via stock.xchng When Beethoven’s Ode to Joy was first performed at  the Theater am Karntnertor in Vienna in 1824, Beethoven conducting for tempo, had his back turned to the audience. There was a standing ovation, the audience tossed their hats into the air; the applause was thunderous, and the aging exhausted […]

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