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Learn more@edwardjones.com Jane Pauley and this is Sunday morning Christmas come and gone. The clock is ticking before you know it will ring in the new year. But before we leave, 20, 21, behind it's that time when we remember the unforgettable when we say hail and farewell to those who left us in the year gone by Lee Cowan has our annual look back luminaries to statesmen. Actors will never forget this morning we think about are those who enriched our lives will all leaving us a bit better year we hoped would be better to not to wish you a joyous new year comes bearing a gift. The inspiring story behind Beethoven's ode to Joy, Beethoven's towering ninth Symphony was a call for personal fellowship composer was at his most isolated while writing it. I think it's the greatest accomplishment of musical history, the writing of the nine by a man who was essentially death know how you cast more Beethoven's gift to humankind, and on Sunday morning after Peter doing pledge will be telling Leslie Stahl the story behind his latest movie classic love story with a twist while acting. I asked myself every morning. What else do I like gardening along the amazing story of how a production of Cyrano de Bergerac, starring eater Denglish jump from this little stage big-screen pleasure to meet you Cyrano de Bergerac later night and will take us down some country roads set down updates us on the reconstruction of passes beloved Notre Dame. Thanks Haley has the last word on the year 2021 more on this last Sunday morning of 2021 Sunday, December 26 will be right back with that was a huge John Denver in 1971 today.

It's become something of an anthem for the homesick everywhere, Knighton takes us down the road with first line of John Denver song take me home country road calls West Virginia almost Heaven and Europe in the mountains that description you pretty these winding country roads immortalized by someone never driven into West Virginia before he wrote the song, no melody is songwriter build out off along with his then girlfriend and bandmate tapping Eifert rough draft of country roads for their pal John Denver.

After gig one night in Washington DC. John's biggest contribution to the port was well known at 1 o'clock one third three stayed up late collaborating on the version that hit the airwaves. 50 years ago, 71, an overview of the war was really rotten with hundreds of thousands of troops over there so coming home is a big big deal was a song about home just not Daniels home you're from Massachusetts as easily have been almost in Massachusetts, like the word West Virginia sounded good and as it turned out a lot of other people thought so too. The song was John Denver's first hit, and despite some questionable geographic accuracy. The Blue Ridge Mountains in Shenandoah River and the lyrics are barely within the state's borders. West Virginia is embraced at Mountain states adopted favorite song and a special visit to the campus. West Virginia University sing the song after every home game staple wedding reception. You can find the lyrics posters and T-shirts everywhere from small town storefronts. The back of Sen. Joe mansions boat the enduring appeal outside of the state has been more surprising televisions. The office Germany's Oktoberfest song is known throughout so we can think about the song as being about anyplace it names West Virginia have to West Virginia University assistant professor Sarah Morris has been studying the global impact of country roads. People take the song and reappropriated so that it's about the place that's home to swap in their own geographic references change the geographic references change the lyrics change the location, but it doesn't really change the song doesn't change the meaning. This two tomatoes version Jamaica why it's France will will will. There are countless reinterpretations song is hugely popular in Japan. A lot of the anime film heart centers around a teenage girl translates country homesickness is universal is the rare song that isn't just singing about something it's causing it country star Brad Paisley grew up in Glendale, West Virginia is been playing country roads ever since he learned to play guitar sounding meaning for him when he left for Nashville. I think once you wave the song takes on way more just character and you hear that on the radio and you're not in West Virginia like you hear that in your car and comes on that iconic leading homecoming has always been something West Virginia have experienced, but we then lost in our population since 1950, so I think it's a perennial mood for West Virginia including this one. I grew up in the capital city of Charleston. I learned to ride my bike on country roads.

I left the state after high school, but I'm still nostalgic for it.

Like the song says all my memories gather round or one of the things that I've been thinking about is a Welsh concept called high-rise deep longing for someplace white it's home for it may be a place that you've never been more the home that you've only dreamed of this deep hole to workplace and whatever home means to you, no place like place really long line.

People are looking for in their lives. Like so many people I had home 2020, which is made returning this year especially the end of the year at the end of the country. It was April 15, 2019.

When fire tore through Paris is beloved Notre Dame plans to restore and reconstruct the great Cathedral were launched almost immediately. 2+ years later, our set down has a progress report.

It's at the heart of Paris.

In every sense of the word is landmark, which is endured since the 12th century, is now almost unrecognizable inside. As we saw when Sunday morning was granted rear access today. Notre Dame deed will scaffolding that's after that.

April 2019 fire likely sparked by an electrical short which engulfed the church the magnificent 160-year-old Gothic spire toppled and much of the roof collapsed remarkably though most of the main stone structure remain in French Pres. and then will not on how to rebuild in five years.

Since I can lead contamination from the destroyed roof inspire is just one of the many challenges slowing renovation work and even access to the monument as we found out where suited up this past summer to go high on the scaffolding over the Cathedral to meet from this commanding perch. The man in charge of the renewal effort shown we judge let who does not exactly how much time to enjoy the vistas of Paris. What have you.

Yes, it's one of the most magnificent bars, but only if small time because this was only for five years he's referring to the scaffolding and that ambitious renovation deadline and I'm here to win this buckle bottle sedated bottle. In fact, he's a military general and Georgia lenses. That's part of the reason Tom chose him is charged with managing this rebuilding effort. They've already raised $1 billion showed us the gaping hole in the church's transept received half of the drama heart of it all and pointed out where there once was the roof framework all framework rules.

This is where lattice of centuries old wooden beams known as the forest made up a sort of attic for the church. It doesn't look like it'll be ready by 2024. What is safe because Robert brought the scuffle, but we have a which is very precise.

Now all you have of what we call the study physician to see restoration so in some way going up to the very top to see the work chief architect Philippe Bill Ned took us into that web of scaffolding which had initially obscured while the cathedrals soaring ceiling credible live since this renovation is for him a duty and a mission adding my job is that every morning I wake up to save the Cathedral.

They were putting in place temporary custom-built wooden braces designed to support the flying buttresses such a beloved landmark.

There has been debate over every detail shares versus pews lighting and art, but feeling you have told us the structure will be as close to the original as possible exactly morning I met the value using the exact same materials as they did during the Middle Ages in the 19th century told us we went looking for is to see if the stones we had were the correct density was so it shall be a three building techniques are absolutely identical.

CBS News visited one of the French forests where they were selecting some of the 1000 oak trees at least a century old for the spire transept earlier this month, they began sawing the first few trees. Notre Dame did not have modern fire safety equipment like sprinklers to slow the blaze, but French firefighters had trained to fight a fire at the Cathedral used water at lower pressure and tried to avoid directly spraying the hot stained glass. The stained glass windows are absolutely replaceable leave, you have told us these treasures were spared.

There are carpenters, stonemasons, ironworkers artisans from about 20 different specialties at work here, some in this medieval place, using the most modern implement a drone fitted with special imaging technology. It's a high-resolution photograph. So I really have on my computer and the computer. Philippe Gilman is the research director at France's national Center for scientific research is CNRS he showed us what he calls Notre Dame's digital twin printing maps to understand the way that will balance the well-intentioned people build this cathedrals but also towards Taunton and they can compare these images with high resolution ones taken before the fire. They've examined how the monument moved where it was stressed by the fire and the temperatures at which it burned there trying to understand were specific pieces were placed some materials like stone can be reused. But this piece of wood, for instance, has been burned.

That's not the ability put back in place. So why does this matter.

If you know where exactly that came from. If you can't put it back. It's a matter of knowledge of the unsung carpentry and in trying to understand those processes.

There have been some unexpected revelations from materials like that centuries old wood we can have indications on the original climate climate just by looking on the isotopes inside the house is not only learning about putting back together. Also, learning pieces of history, exactly.

So alignment science for the rebuilding of the content will also sign utilizing details. Precious time capsule is inspiring and challenging artisans of our modern era charged with preserving the majesty. I killed my mother's bowl. I killed my father Tylenol to stay with the boat to the house of all time.

After Peter Denk ledge has one for our enemies for his portrayal of Terry and lattice star in HBO's game of thrones.

Now he's tackling another literary hero Leslie Stahl has our Sunday profile full disclosure, I wanted to interview Peter Denglish for years but he's a hard man to get in the chair famously private. I'm told you really don't like to talk like this is truly private, not Salinger. Not selling cars, but I think privacy is something really get shipped with Drs. Moreno about an actor's personal life you see on screen when the player character, and I feel it subconsciously, paper strips away the fabric of what your watch who you see, I want to say to you, get over because this is the way it is a cranky old man still ran against Cyrano de Bergerac the vehicle. This charmingly ranking 52-year-old is selling a new movie play de Bergerac was written by Edmund Ross stand in 1897. It's the tale of a man ashamed of his appearance helps another man. My whole life useless silent on about expressing yourself, and articulate. So Cyrano ghost write love letters to Roxanne the woman, both men love the character is traditionally decked with a large and repellent nose played by everyone José for rare won an Oscar for his portrayal to Steve Martin languages is content. This era now was filmed in a small town in Sicily last fall. At the height of the pandemic. The movie set was isolated and safe most of the time you decide to shoot a sequence seemed to be a good idea.

The time director Joe Wright almost had a disaster movie on his hands. When Mount that was unforeseen on the lost. I interrupted Charlie's lover as we ran down the hill literally ran for your life. You have pretty much yeah, that was the cliffhanger finale of the film shoot in Sicily story really began calmly in Connecticut at the Goodspeed theater three years ago.

Was Peter still working on game of thrones, at the time lapse camera fans and two days later he started herself, Eric Schmidt and award-winning dramatist is Peter Gingrich's wife. My words are wasted. Now they need to be spoken aloud. She wrote and directed the stage adaptation of Cyrano. I love the character Sarah now. I love how uncomfortable that he is unwilling to be.I don't think you would post spots on Instagram are tighter now he's he really is his own and that is insecure. Yes, Erica told us your wife begged her for the part yeah yeah yes that's true but why what was it well for actor. You always want to do something that for me at least, that scares me. But that's true. I just never sung since I was a kid wrong Joe Wright came to see the play's girlfriend Haley Bennett start is Roxanne on the stage as well as in the movie he asked Erica Schmidt to write the screenplay, so there are scenes in the movie that are almost back yet another things needed to change the last fact is, I must Word for Word what did you ask her to couple reference to the nose and made no reference to Pete's height and I felt it was important to make some reference to how others might perceive Cyrano so at the very beginning someone close and refer you to accept and so we understand fully what the deal is.

And then we can get pasta your wife. She said she didn't write the play with you in mind, but I wonder if she did subliminally, because it fits you so perfectly all the glove. Perhaps you did subliminally. I think with the stage version like to think that it just allows it to spend speak more universally and specifically to someone my size or somebody who is differently labeled. We all have that sort of insecurity when it comes to person. We are in the movie you forgot that's my my gig is to sort of sound and that's not all who I am.

Read scripts where I say no to these characters that there trying to get me to play because it's just my height never stretches anything deeper.

You had a rule, it is said that you wouldn't play Santa's elves and you wouldn't play a leprechaun are not real people and not real people really well written leprechaun complexity and Mike speaks game of thrones. Because of that you're totally famous.

Can you walk down the street without being swarmed depends on the day do you hate it that I do, because I'm not working I'm just walking down the street we lived in Chelsea for a while and we had a dog dog had to be locked a lot and this is probably three of thrones, and he started walking down the street and all these people came. I don't know where they were coming from from the restaurant was 30 people coming towards him and I see walking towards me Out with a baseball cap and sunglasses right by nobody even blinked, but it was that he can't hide Peter. He Glasses and hat and disappear. What's intriguing is that you have spoken about how you don't want to be stared at. You looked at the menu, choose a profession. That's all about people staring at you stare, it's because I flipped the story for a different reason. What about growing up.

You said you had a happy childhood for a moment I thought this would be the abrupt end of our group and town of New Jersey was kid like me comes in school. There's a bit of getting used to. Social dance there but I grew up in the same town so just what it will you as balanced as you come off a little bit of thing really know this is downstream progress and crazy time once final point is when people are the best way to protect people's final season Millstream was supposed to be the year music lovers marked Beethoven's 200 birthday.

The pandemic made that impossible has a belated tribute how important in the history of music is Beethoven's ninth. It's immensely important early metaphorically bigger than the others, in spite of though and says Beethoven biographer Jean Swofford.

It's no coincidence that the symphonies final movement. The triumphal ode to Joy has long been a worldwide anthem of freedom and peace. Littleton population knows that the ninth was Beethoven's final major work the coda to an epic life in music. It's impossible to actually think about the history of music history of humanity without Beethoven. Last year the pandemic complicated plans to celebrate Beethoven's 250th birthday, but says conductor Maren Alsop. There may be no better time to reflect on the man and his philosophy.

It's about coming to terms with tremendous challenge strife struggle and deciding that it's worth it. Strife and struggle were constants in the composer's life. Born in 1770 in the German city upon Ludwig van Beethoven was by age 10, considered the next Mozart throughout his life he was plagued with physical maladies. He may have had chronic lead poisoning had colitis. He had fevers that lasted for months even worse in his late 20s, the composer began to lose his hearing and he wrote this letter, which is partly a suicide note and partly a statement of sciences both just said this letter to be the most visible person but I do love from my heart because I can't imagine killing myself. Basically, before I've done what I know I could do so was the world around him, gradually fell silent. Beethoven wrote a furious pace string nano compositions Porsche Symphony's by the 1820s Beethoven he's health worse than ever. He's personal life. In shambles, was no longer writing is easily one open question whether or not Beethoven would be back before the ninth premiered the general opinion about Beethoven was that he was so sick and crazy that it was finished, but Beethoven wasn't true just yet passionately political all his life.

He adapted the Friedrich Schiller poem ode to Joy. A revolutionary call for freedom for his Symphony a radical act.

By the time based on the road was a police state, and it's amazing to me that everybody knew what the ode to Joy was about about the revolution.

Tapping into all that to keep the dream of freedom alive in a bad time, I think you could rightly say I think of this. It's the greatest accomplishment and musical history, the writing of the ninth by a man who was essentially death know how you cast more San Francisco-based hearing specialist Dr. Charles Lim was inspired to create simulations of how Beethoven may have hurt his own compositions is an example of what really severe satellite somebody distorted sound, barely audible. Tell right away.

There's a lot of clarity you're just hearing rumblings and you can even tell really that it was based once on a piece of you can fairly state that he composed Symphony using his mind's ear using his mind's ear.

What does that mean if you just stop right now try to hear your head and your hearing it because your auditory memory allows you to have recollection Maren Alsop thinks Beethoven's loss of hearing may very well have liberated him creatively. I think because he didn't hear the pieces sensor them in the same way he Moving forward in terms of experimentation in terms of taking risks at the premiere of the ninth Symphony. The crowd went wild.

Beethoven couldn't hear them. Somebody had to turn around the city.

It's going crazy, but it wasn't for the musicals for him. 22 years after he contemplated taking his own life, determined, defiant, Beethoven gave the world a reminder that even in the darkest of times. There's potential for us in so many ways talents, their deeds, their special gifts time for our look back at those who left us in the year gone by with Lee Cowan we say hail and farewell. That's something we been trying to do you move a little closer but we still ended the year with more covert deaths last year and a variant but strengthening our holidays once again there were more school shootings and of course line of tornadoes because scar across the nation's midsection in December. Not exactly, so much for Broadway though reopened cautiously within a new revival of a groundbreaking musical company still reeling from the loss of its Stephen Sondheim from into the woods. The follies the swing was one of the most wonderful composer and lyricist Broadway standing by the World Bank in those days this week I sent left us after decades of powerful performances that elevated the lives of black Americans in their story. I want to test certain issues. She's to go about doing something wrong.

The autobiography of Miss she considered her most important other fighters like Gloria Richards pushed aside, a national guardsmen's wife Lucille times staged a one-woman bus boycott six months before Rosa Parks enough to see Colin Powell reached the peak of he was the first black Chairman of the joint Chiefs national security advisor and later Pres. George W. Bush's Secretary of State people look to trust you because you are serving selflessly as the leader, not self-serving, selflessly serve our country abroad and hammering thinking served American uniform to passing Babe Ruth baseball's ranking will will all will will all forget imagery to the Dodgers ships love every day of my life every day of his life to you. My audience with his signature suspenders. He reigned as king of the TV interview will wasn't really royalty Britain's principal dashing figure by his wife, Queen Elizabeth side for royal weddings and funerals defending the monarch for nearly 3/4 of a century, Christopher Plummer's royalty in his own way but always be remembered as Capt. von Trapp is remembered for something's if you ever sent us in public.

When you were hoping I might send for you now.

It's a wrap. He won his first Oscar at age 82. You Cruise ship was quite a promotion from the struggling writer played being bossed around by Ed as played gruff, hard-working news man on the Mary Tyler Moore show was release for now you got's cousin said every course Leachman stay close to the kind stack case and a touch. Also a memorable part of the funk and steam household. I am all for the forces she made everyone, as did a chorus of mother to whom we bid a fond farewell could love them because they know they can Olympia Dukakis won an Oscar.

Playing shares mother and moonstruck she was eating Sally and was truly scrubbed.

We lost her, and we lost Jessica Walter to show she played one of the worst and funniest moms ever. You know there isn't a hospital bar mother George Segal was a powerful dramatic actor will prefer lighter Jane with being a brat later in life is no Josephine the plumber good-natured commercials for common cleanser, get a leading cleanser, fishing invention of the century. You could sell almost anything you like. So easy.

It takes the corn off the call gadgets to solve problems. Michelle is just four easy payments. Inventions will be cluttering our closets for years, Spencer silver invented that slightly sticky glue it up on the back posted note. Remember to thank you and we lost the creator of the game play United by Nina maybe entertain people laughing is the Yiddish accent brought the borscht belt Broadway is comedian Mort Saul was one of the first to make us laugh at politics next with the trouble spots in the world market and black and white glow at 94.

How Holbrook became the living embodiment of Mark Twain years. He died this year, 95, when I look back on what is a long line. I think how lucky just block became notice staying power started out with Alfred Hitchcock to 70 years later, he took a turn with Amy Schumer.

I was the first person on my block to own a television set. At age 100, and he was ready for me having died at 100 farewell to him. So many. However, one is lucky to live" died of cancer at 64 is carried lost actor Willie Carson decanter to only 57 game you Michael K. Williams first strode into the limelight on the mean streets of Baltimore Omar live wire guided only 54 and Peter school buddies whatever was only 60s can help you this year and seven years after his brother for their sweet harmonies spec 60 monkeys were 60s tonight.

Nevermind the group was for TV like this quite monkey, died this year at 70 drummer for the Rolling Stones Charlie Watts try smile feet right there is cofounder of the Supremes. Wilson was front and center, but true farewell chicory diffuse jazz rock classical music was own unique set. He died this year at 79. His troubled soul, but spoke to his generation. He died this year and we 50 member Schoolhouse Rock for making the process of legislating more understanding.

Following a lonely bill will will Mondale lost his bid for the White House to Ronald Reagan in the 80 but you been there in 1976 as Jimmy Carter's VP.

He died at 93. There are things we know we know we also know there are known unknowns, Donald Rumsfeld served four presidents during his long career in Washington twice serving as America's Sec. of Defense.

I'm extremely to Sen. Bob bill but it was Robert who ended up one of the longest-serving Republican leaders in Washington. The poor kid from Russell, Kansas sought his party's nomination for president several times to lose to Bill Clinton the statesman and veteran left us at 90 well worth for Bob go all weekend updates Norm McDonald on her door on Saturday Night Live in the way know those are much for years. Don't feel your pain. You 61 from CBS News headquarters. Roger mod was very real tomorrow. Reporting the news with integrity and insight.

Over 30 freedom is not just limited to 60 minutes of the New York Times. It also means Hustler magazine Larry Flynt was on the other side of that spectrum is Hustler magazine became unlikely vehicles to test the First Amendment married in Plattsburgh, New York hi and welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program Rush Limbaugh exercised his First Amendment rights on the radio never shot say what he thought. I think I just have to be saying what a whole lot of people think of a chance to save himself. That's what I call the most dangerous man in America feel like there is this country are those exactions of bridge that chasm you little bit closer that they will have the chimney sweeps for nearly 50 years on NBC got something to celebrate all the skies get cloudy we have this to you by BJ Tom many many more failed fires in the satisfaction of live in for time to get the word from our faith family Webster word here is back seen for the Oxford English dictionary solid choices.

Vaccines are a game changer, but like me there's not a lot to dig into with vaccine can really use a shot is grace.

I've heard people using the word grace more than ever this past year when I was growing up grace to me either meant the Christian definition favor from God. That spontaneous and undeserved referred to my great aunt Grace, who collected frogs and bourbon folks are using it to mean so many things, not just elegance of movement or a blessing before mail but when someone says I need grace or let's show some grace. It means, let's be patient before giving. Let's be understanding that we all fail to be impeccable is the spiritual high-five.

We given for even trying to show this challenging time has taught us that we are all in this together I were ready to grant grace rather than judge is what heals us you give grace to someone not because there were because you can because you're human and you hope someone will give you the same gift. Thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning. This is intelligence matters with former acting director of the CIA. Michael Morel bridge Colby is cofounder and principal of the Marathon initiative project focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States burning your sustained great power competition states put her mind to something, we can usually figure it out what people are saying and what we can know analytically and purely as our strategic situation or situations not being matched up with follow.

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