Nov 8th, 2009 - Washington Post
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BERLIN -- Daniel Barenboim, who was in town the night the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, is joining Bon Jovi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and Hillary Clinton to celebrate the 20th anniversary.
The 5 million euro ($7.4 million) party opens at 7 p.m. Monday, with Barenboim conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate. The program comprises an excerpt from Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin," Arnold Schoenberg's "A Survivor From Warsaw," the fourth movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and a piece by the composer Friedrich Goldmann.
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