Friday, August 05, 2011

A Triumph of Light Over Darkness

The Beethoven Ninth Symphony performed in 1942 for the entertainment of the criminal conspirators who had hijacked the German government from 1933-1945.


A Triumph of Light Over Darkness!!  The following is a performance of the fourth movement of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein in the Schauspielhaus in central Berlin on December 25, 1989, celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Ironically, or significantly, Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Light, was celebrated in 1989 beginning on December 23.