BERLIN, Germany -- Deaf Hip-Hop World Champion Dances Beethoven’s 5th Symphony: Kassandra Wedel lost her hearing when she was three. Kassandra never stopped dancing. Ludwig Van Beethoven and Hip-Hop Dance Champion Kassandra Wedel have one thing in common. Beethoven was Deaf when he wrote many of his masterpieces, including most of his symphonies.
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Kassandra Wedel lost her hearing when she was three years old. This new music video on the first movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker iconic recording of 1977 celebrates the fight against the barriers of deafness and opens up the opportunity to experience Beethoven’s music in all its sonic and new visual facets.
Premiered in time for WHO’s World Hearing Day 2020 on March 3 and celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, the video highlights the composer’s relevance of his life’s message for society today.
Kassandra Wedel / Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic.
Kassandra Wedel and Beethoven: https://beethoven-playon.com/kassandra.
Music video brought to you with the support of Google Arts & Culture.
Director: Nehemias Colindres.
Production: Rekorder GmbH.
Inspire the world with Beethoven and the relevance of his life’s message spread the video and find short trailers: https://bit.ly/kassandratrailer.
Learn more about Kassandra Wedel: https://youtu.be.
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https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/deutsche-grammophon.
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