The entire range of human emotions and spirituality is in the music. Beethoven did not repeat feelings of self-pity and powerlessness in this music. When you get to the end of the Ninth Symphony, you can see the victory. You see the rainbow. And Beethoven provided perhaps the most memorable moment of many in this year's festival, with help from the Gateways orchestra augmented by a multi-ethnic chorus.
Music is a very open field.
There is no one excluded from the possibility of being involved. David Raymond is a staff writer for City Newspaper.