The instruments sang as if one voice.

The music rose & expanded & became

pure emotion.

Tears streamed from my eyes. I wept uncontrollably.

It was more than I was & more than I could ever be.

It was Healing & a Testament to the best of who we are and to the worst of who we are.

It was a confession, It was a celebration..

It was at our most human.

this is the power of art and the person that has not experienced it is only half alive.

-Kent Nerburn,

after watching Leonard Bernstein

 conduct Beethoven's 9th in concert

celebrating the fall of the Berlin wall.