I like the way this carries through the thoughts/feelings, Ken.
How I would have set it out - below. (and looked for an alternative to ‘oppression’)
Max
On Nov 13, 2014, at 2:48 AM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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 faced 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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