Helen Keller: “Dear Friends: I have the joy of being able to tell you…I spent a glorious hour…listening over the radio to Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony“… Someone suggested that I put my hand on the receiver… I could feel..the vibrations…the impassioned rhythm, the throb & the urge of the music!”
Maria PopovaHelen Keller’s moving account of “hearing” Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” with her hands and suddenly understanding the meaning of music www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/11/h...