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DESCRIPTION:Schiller’s “An die Freude”\, Beethoven’s Ninth and the\nstruggl
 e over Europe’s identity\nConvenor: Giorgio Resta\, Visiting Associate Pro
 fessor\, Faculty of\nLaw\nThe Treaty establishing a constitution for Europ
 e\, signed in\nRome in 2004\, expressly provided that “the anthem of the U
 nion\nshall be based on the ‘Ode to Joy’ from the Ninth Symphony by\nLudwi
 g van Beethoven”. The Treaty was rejected by the majority of\nFrench and D
 utch voters and was eventually replaced by the Lisbon\nTreaty\, entered in
 to force in 2009. The failure to grant formal\nlegal status to the anthem\
 , reflects the widespread distrust of any\nconstitutional or federalist co
 ncepts and conveys the sense of an\nunending struggle over Europe’s identi
 ty. But the history of the\nNinth – and the poem by Schiller of which it i
 s a setting – is no\nless fraught with ambiguity. It has been celebrated b
 y German\nnationalists in the nineteenth century\, considered the new\nMar
 seillaise in France’s Third Republic\, admired by communists as\nthe symbo
 l of a classless society\, frequently played by the Nazis\nin public cerem
 onies (such as the opening of the Olympic Games in\n1936)\, adopted as off
 icial anthem both by the Council of Europe and\nby…the racist Republic of 
 Rhodesia. The richness of such a living\ntradition is not only evidence of
  the greatness of a work of art\;\nit also provides a vivid illustration o
 f the complex relationships\nbetween a text and its interpretation\, which
  might be of great\nrelevance for the reflections of both the musicologist
  and the\njurist.\n
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LOCATION:McTavish 3610\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 3610 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:IPLAI Artefacts of Memory seminar meeting
URL:/channels/event/iplai-artefacts-memory-seminar-mee
 ting-172437
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