Celebrating the Fall
We just arrived last night
from Bremen and ddIncredible to be in the middle of Berlin on the night of the
celebration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall, the
Mauerfall – the very middle, in the hotel Adlon by the Branderburg gate – on the
night that Daniel Barenboim is going to play the Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth. There are tens of thousands of
people assembled, and we are watching now on tv a picture of what it was like
25 years ago… I was then at the Getty in California for the year and remember
what I felt like, just watching…
And now again, here it is,
with all its hope. So much the opposite of the fall of Icarus so many mythical
years ago!
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