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Alan Moss <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:55:54 +0100
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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.

Alan Moss

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