Choral Fantasy (Beethoven) the "Choral Fantasy" text – universal fraternity with the meeting of arts – evokes similar feelings as the "Ode to Joy" text. Beethoven himself acknowledged the kinship of the two works. In a letter of 1824, when he was writing the Ninth Symphony, he described his project as "a setting of the words of Schiller's immortal "Lied an die Freude" in the same way as my pianoforte fantasia with chorus, but on a far grander scale." The "Choral Fantasy" theme is itself taken from earlier work by Beethoven: it is a slightly modified version of the composer's "Gegenliebe", a lied
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