Ode to Joy himself regarded it as a failure later in his life, going so far as to call it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe for us two, but not for the world, nor for the art of poetry" in an 1800 letter to his long-time friend and patron Christian Gottfried Körner (whose friendship had originally inspired him to write the ode). The lines marked with * have been revised as follows: Academic speculation remains as to whether Schiller originally wrote an Ode to Freedom "(Ode an die Freiheit)" and changed it to an Ode to Joy. "... [T]he thought lies
Music of the Spheres (Doctor Who) 2009. The episode has live and pre-recorded components: the pre-recorded component takes place in the TARDIS; the live component is the "Doctor Who" Prom which took place during the episode's first transmission. Consequently, a major component of the episode is that it breaks the fourth wall: the Doctor (David Tennant) "converses" with the audience and conducts the orchestra to perform his symphony "Ode to the Universe". He is antagonised by the Graske (Jimmy Vee), who intends to cause mischief at the Prom. The beginning of the episode depicts the Tenth Doctor composing "Ode to the Universe": a symphony based on