Original: That year , Eisfeld conducted the Orchestra 's memorial concert for the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln , but in a peculiar turn of events which were criticized in the New York press , the Philharmonic omitted the last movement , '' Ode to Joy '' , as being inappropriate for the occasion .
Simplified: In 1865 Theodore Eisfeld conducted the Orchestra 's memorial concert for the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln , but the last movement was not performed because it was thought that the '' Ode to Joy '' was not suitable for the sad occasion .