Alan Moss, about the march in Beethoven's Ninth:

>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.

Do you mean "Froh, wie seine sonnen fliegen..."?.  Well, till some years
ago I could hear in it the Smurfs coming from the forest with their little
bags full of strawberries.  But I'm recovered now.

Pablo Massa
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