Alan Moss wrote:

>Don Satz wrote:
>
>>Being a person who does not care for humor in music and likely does a poor
>>job of recognizing it, I'm interested in what is humorous about the fourth
>>movement march.  I never noted anything funny about it, just that I felt it
>>was musically very effective.
>
>The late Sir Charles Groves once told me that in that march he could
>already hear the tramp of Nazi jackboots and hear the cry of "Sieg, heil!",
>and I'm afraid that since then I have never been able to hear that music in
>any other way.

I think this is a wonderful example for the very subjective nature of
listening to music.  Some days ago I had a (rather friendly) feud about
if it is possible to consider Britten's Hymn from his Serenade as comic.
Well, it IS possible as it is possible to hear Nazi jackboots in
Beethoven's march.  There is no one way of listening to a musical piece.

Robert Peters
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