Jos van Veldhoven's disc with the Netherlands Bach Society brings together one of the most famous celebrations of the Treaty of Utrecht, Handel's Te Deum and Jubilate, and William Croft's rarely performed Ode with Noise of Cannon.
Kohler was then performing in "Ode to the Man Who Kneels," Maxwell's eighteenth full-length play, which also starred two of my other favorite players, Jim Fletcher and Greg Mehrten.
Other highlights included a storming dance routine set to imagery of the 1908 and 1948 Games, a performance by Placido Domingo, the Royal Ballet, an arrangement of Nick Cave's haunting Into My Arms sung by Paloma Faith and Duncan Rock and a massed chorus of singers and dancers performing an Ode to Joy finale.
The lone straight-ahead rapper on the bill was Big Freedia, from New Orleans, who makes bounce music, that city's signature frenetic hip-hop subscene, and who was ecstatic and tireless, performing one ode to the derrière after the next, often with crowd participation.
Robbie Savage caught the mood when Hal Robson-Kanu performed his ode to Cruyff, screeching: "Go and wake your kids up!" Player of the tournament Chapeau, Antoine Griezmann.
The group is all-Iranian – 87 musicians and 70 choir singers, who performed the Ode to Joy in its original German.
In 2008, at the British Open, he performed an ode to golf that featured a simile comparing the edges of a bunker to Mick Jagger's lips.
There's not enough swirling psych pop on kids' TV these days, but the surreal show for toddlers fixed that when of Montreal performed their ode to upset tummies with the gravitas it deserves.
Under the soaring prow of a dynamically angled glass-and-steel structure drifting like an airship over a palatial brick firehouse, a chorus and orchestra performed the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
One of the show's stars, Peter Dinklage, performed an ode to his own survival on the bloodthirsty drama called Still Going Strong, while actor Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, sang a reggae anthem called Rastafarian Targaryen.
