Back to The Season page Beethoven Nine: Ode to Joy Thursday, May 20, 8 pm All Remaining Seats $40 Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor Eugene Symphony Chorus & Soloists Beethoven Symphony No. 1 Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Giancarlo Guerrero The bookends of the "Beethoven Revolution," from his opening salvo to the profound pinnacle of his career-the Olympian, heaven-storming "Ode to Joy." Unlike anything else before or after, Beethoven's Ninth is the highest peak that music ever reached. In the monumental final movement, 120 voices join the orchestra to sing about a joy too vast and deep for instruments alone.