In D Minor

This picture taken Wednesday last week shows Hiroko Higashino (front center), born with three fingers on her right hand, playing an AI-powered piano duraing a Christmas concert rehearsal of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 with the Yokohama Sinfonietta orchestra in Tokyo. The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. AFP