It's Beethoven's 250th. birthday!
Here's a performance of the final movement of his Ninth Symphony, "The Ode to Joy," with Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra and Westminster Choir, featuring my father's life-long friend, basso Nicola Moscona, with soprano Jarmila Novotna, contralto Kerstin Thorborg, and tenor Jan Peerce.
It was recorded in 1939, at Carnegie Hall.