demusic1-3, Exercise 2: Two uses of the Ninth

Model answer (one possible choice; check each use):

Berlin, Christmas 1989: after the opening of the Berlin Wall, Bernstein conducted the Ninth with players from East and West and from several countries. Reports say "Freude" was changed to "Freiheit" in the text. The use turned the work into a celebration of freedom and of the end of the division, and it was a deliberate, public statement.

The European Union: an arrangement of the finale's tune serves as the anthem, without the words. This use takes the tune as a symbol of European unity and drops Schiller's text, so it keeps the music but leaves the specific German poem behind.

What the comparison shows: the same music can stand for national freedom in one place and a wider European idea in another, and each user decides which parts of the work to keep (check both details).