Look who’s tearing down the Berlin Wall

Look who’s tearing down the Berlin Wall

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norman lebrecht

November 08, 2014

Leonard Bernstein was in Berlin soon after the Wall fell. He conducted Beethoven’s 9th with one significant word alteration – Freiheit (freedom) in place on Freude (joy)

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