Bernard Chasan wrote:

>This will get me voted off the island:
>
>St. Mathew Passion
>Beethoven's Ninth Symphony  (finale)

No problem with me on the Beethoven Finale...it has always seemed so
out of place with the rest of the piece...I have some vague recollection
that it may not have been part of his original plan for the piece...no
doubt one of you will know more about that than I do. It also seemed so
out of character for him.

Karl