Bringing the event home, Ken, good one.
On 13 November 2014 03:31, Doug Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Happy then sad, Kenneth. ('face' should be 'faced'?)
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> I begin to think you need it because of the ogther kind of walls being
> erected where you live, & even more so after Tuesday...
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> Doug
> On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > When the Berlin Wall Finally Fell
> >
> > When the Berlin Wall finally fell,
> > Bernstein led the orchestra and chorus
> > in Beethoven's 9th, and I was tearful
> > even if it was "only politics," but
> >
> > I could hear the joy, watch Lenny
> > ihr ein Berliner, leaping up
> > on every downbeat, sharing the joy
> >
> > with a chorus of children, adults
> > who'd lived beneath oppression,
> > and I said to my confused kids,
> > "remember what you see here,
> >
> > remember it for all your lives,
> > for it is their Passover, their
> > celebration of deliverance."
> > Did they, do they? Since 1989
> >
> > they have face their own deliverance,
> > the Ode to Joy is a special occasion,
> > and they may roll it out of the recesses
> > only if they need it.
> > I need it.
> >
>
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