Before the holocaust, before the gulag, before Pearl Harbor, before the muddy trenches of the great war and the napalm of Vietnam, Ludwig van Beethoven gave his life to music. Stone deaf by the time he died he believed with a passion, uniquely intense, that music can change the world. Each note carefully placed, separated by space from the note before and the note after, combined with the notes of others in harmony and respect, the power of his message lives with us this day and opened my soul once again to the cleansing flood of tears filled with sorrow and gratitude.

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