History & The Arts
The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert
...opened before East Berliners had the opportunity to re-engage with one of the city’s most prestigious cultural institutions: the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. On Sunday 12 November 1989, Daniel Baremboim conducted a celebratory performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony in the orchestra’s home, the Philharmonie, to which all East Berliners were invited. But this...