Music brings people together, helps with coping amid COVID-19 crisis

ByDavid Wright ABCNews logo
Monday, March 30, 2020
Music brings people together, helps with coping amid COVID-19 crisis
Symphonies, choirs and orchestras come together through the screen to share harmony, humanity and hope during uncertain times.

Staying home, quarantined, isolated -- this is the world we now live in with the novel coronavirus pandemic and finding ways to cope amidst trying times has turned into inspiration for some.

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From the Italian serenades, and balcony concerts, people are taking music to a whole new level.

Musicians with the Toronto symphony performed Copeland's "Appalachian Spring." Members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic played Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," and many others sang together through video chat.

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Music is a universal language bringing harmony, humanity, and hope.