

© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/via Getty Images Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images CBS Philip Gould/Corbis via Getty Images Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesĪ LOOK BACK: Hail and farewell – A tribute to those we lost in 2021 | Watch Video Colin Powell "Lou Grant" actor Ed Asner "Interview with the Vampire" author Anne Rice "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" actress Cicely Tyson and baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. Clockwise from top left: Broadway composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and Secretary of State Gen. Correspondent Debora Patta, in Johannesburg, looks back at the life of human rights campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won a Nobel Peace Prize as a man who spoke truth to power, whether it was a White racist regime or a corrupt African dictatorship. South Africa's first Black Archbishop, who bravely challenged his country apartheid rule, is dead at age 90. HEADLINES: Archbishop Desmond Tutu dead at 90 (Video)

He would overcome thoughts of suicide to compose his masterwork: the Ninth Symphony and its optimistic final movement, "Ode to Joy." Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with biographer Jan Swafford and conductor Marin Alsop about Beethoven's incredible triumph over terrible mental and physical suffering and with a hearing specialist who has created a simulation of how Beethoven actually heard his music. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of extraordinary gifts, but a lifetime of maladies – including the almost-total loss of his hearing – threatened his ability to write music. MUSIC: The defiance of Ludwig van Beethoven and his "Ode to Joy" | Watch Video
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It's at the heart of Paris, in every sense of the word, and so when Notre Dame Cathedral was engulfed by fire in April 2019, it became the nation's mission to restore the medieval church to its full glory. POSTCARD FROM PARIS: Reconstructing Notre Dame Cathedral | Watch Video Jean-Louis Georgelin, who is overseeing the reconstruction of Notre Dame, with correspondent Seth Doane on the roof of the 12th century cathedral, which was damaged by fire in 2019. "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley looks back on key events of a dramatic year.
