Every Christmas I return to this. On Christmas Day 1989, just weeks after the Berlin Wall fell, Leonard Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Berlin. For my family, and for so many others,...

Betty Reid Soskin (1921–2025) Betty Reid Soskin passed away this past weekend at the age of 104. She lived an extraordinary life, and her story touched the Brief But Spectacular community far and wide...

December 25, 2025