Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” was greeted with complete silence at Sunday’s concert in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. “No concert in the history of the Vienna Philharmonic has been discussed as intensively. The debate about whether this concert should go ahead in Austria’s new political situation, has absorbed Vienna for weeks, and was still at full tilt in Austria’s weekend newspapers. Televised live around the country, the Mauthausen memorial was not so much a concert, more a journey of the Austrian soul.” – The Guardian