Time's Echo by Jeremy Eichler

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/28367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time's Echo Author: Jeremy Eichler Narrator: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins Release date: 08-29-23 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 37 ratings Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal “Ode to Joy,” he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace and freedom, a time when millions would be embraced as equals. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony then gave wing to Schiller’s words, but barely a century later these same words were claimed by Nazi propagandists and twisted by a barbarism so complete that it ruptured, as one philosopher put it, “the deep layer of solidarity among all who wear a human face.”