For almost 200 years, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth and last symphony has been played wherever major events are celebrated with music: at the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Tiananmen Square, at the opening of the Olympic Games, at New Year celebrations. The Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s concert season, too, ends in the grandest possible way when the finest Finnish vocal soloists, a big symphony choir and principal conductor Dalia Stasevska perform the ‘Ode to Joy’.