Not every memory triggered by music is necessarily a pleasant one. Today’s takes me back 48 years to the terrible events at the Munich Olympics. The following day there was a memorial service in the stadium which opened with the Funeral march from the Eroica symphony and finished with this – Beethoven’s Egmont Overture.
I’ve gone with this rather than the Eroica because it took everyone from the sombre tone of the service through to some much more positive place at the end of the overture. Every time I hear this, I am reminded of that time and of the hope that the music points us to.