ODE TO FREEDOM - LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Il giorno di Natale, 25 dicembre, del 1989, come parte dei festeggiamenti per la caduta del Muro di Berlino, Bernstein diresse in quella città la Sinfonia n. 9 di Beethoven. Il concerto fu trasmesso dal vivo in più di venti paesi con un audience di 100 milioni di persone. Per l`occasione, Bernstein modificò il testo di Friedrich Schiller dell`"Inno alla Gioia", sostituendo la parola "Libertà" ("Freiheit") alla parola "Gioia" ("Freude"). A tal proposito affermò: "Sono sicuro che Beethoven ci avrebbe dato la sua benedizione".
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On Christmas Day, 25 December 1989, Bernstein conducted the Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in East Berlin's Schauspielhaus (Playhouse) as part of a celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The concert was broadcast live in more than twenty countries to an estimated audience of 100 million people. For the occasion, Bernstein reworded Friedrich Schiller's text of the Ode to Joy, substituting the word Freiheit (freedom) for Freude (joy).[4] Bernstein, in the introduction to the program, said that they had "taken the liberty" of doing this because of a "most likely phony" story, apparently believed in some quarters, that Schiller wrote an "Ode to Freedom" that is now presumed lost. Bernstein's comment was, 'I'm sure that Beethoven would have given us his blessing."
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VIDEO "ODE TO FREEDOM", Leonard Bernstein, 1989.
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