 Many decades later, association with the "Kristallnacht" anniversary was cited as the main reason against choosing 9 November "(Schicksalstag)", the day the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, as the new German national holiday; a different day was chosen (3 October 1990, German reunification).The avant-garde guitarist Gary Lucas's 1988 composition "Verklärte Kristallnacht", which juxtaposes what would become the Israeli national anthem ten years after "Kristallnacht", "Hatikvah", with phrases from the German national anthem "Deutschland Über Alles" amid wild electronic shrieks and noise, is intended to be a sonic representation of the horrors of "Kristallnacht".It was premiered at the 1988 Berlin Jazz Festival and received rave reviews.