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Roll Over, Beethoven: This Catholic Girls School is Shaking Up Radio Station’s Classics Countdown
Each year the classical radio station in Washington, D.C. WETA (90.9) hosts the annual Classical Countdown. Listeners vote on their top three favorite classical pieces and then the top 100 pieces are played the week of Thanksgiving.
For years and years, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (which includes the Ode to Joy) has taken first place. Everyone knew this and expected it to happen again in 2022. But two years ago, instrumental music director, Alix Baldwin at Oakcrest School, a Catholic school in Vienna, Virginia, had an idea. She suggested to her class that perhaps Beethoven's Ninth didn’t have to win again. Read National Catholic Register article here.
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