TSO Goes Late Night: Beethoven Symphony 9Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Music Director Peter Oundjian conducts the Orchestra in Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony at 11:00 PM, featuring a full cast of soloists and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.

During the premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the music was received with such emotion that both the audience and the orchestral musicians wept. Tragically, Beethoven heard neither the music nor the applause due to his profound deafness, and he only witnessed the audience’s elation after a musician directed his attention to it.

"The orchestra breathed a chord that seemed to contain every colour in the universe and every sound ever uttered since the dawn of time."
– Toronto Life on the Toronto Symphony Orchestra