How many private citizens do you know who have commissioned their own symphony? For just about everyone the answer is zero, but there is one man of courage and vision who did just that and his name is Alex Ayzin. In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown, Azyin, a Russian émigré whose entire family defected from the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, commissioned his own symphony from Russian composer Emilian Sichkin, entitled Winds of Freedom, in an effort to promote world peace and freedom. At the height of the Cold War, being a third-generation naval officer, Ayzin was all too aware of the dangers involved in the world situation in the mid-1980s. Like an 18th century European monarch, Ayzin commanded a composer to put his vision to music and then he worked for five years side-by-side with Sichkin, guiding him along as dramatic world events shaped and evolved the music and all the inhabitants of Earth. Even the most prescient analysts didn't predict what took place in the late 1980s, indeed these developments seemed impossible twenty or even five years earlier; the Berlin Wall fell, the Polish Solidarity Movement gained traction and ultimately the Soviet Union voted itself out of business as the Afghan War and pressure from the West forced a political and economic collapse of the Russian Communist system. President Reagan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II worked together, with many brave men and women known and unknown, to bring down the curtain on a chapter in human history that must be remembered as lesson for mankind. In 1991, Alex Ayzin staged a Winds of Freedom concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City that produced standing ovations and recently the symphony was edited into an eight-part multi-media presentation that is a truly moving experience. Below is the entire the presentation