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Ooops... here's the article I meant to send with my last post.
The Beethoven Mystery
Why haven't we figured out his Ninth Symphony yet?
By Jan Swafford
Posted Monday, June 30, 2003, at 2:58 PM PT
This summer, as every summer, the end of the Boston Symphony's
Tanglewood season will be marked by another round of Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony. The world over, the Ninth has become an indispensable
adornment for socio/musical hooplas. Chances are, it will be played
soon by an orchestra near you. If you know Western classical music,
you know this one. Probably half of humanity can hum the little ditty
that serves as the theme of the choral finalea - "a setting of
Schiller's revolutionary-era drinking song, "Ode to Joy."
Which is all to say, the Ninth has attained the kind of ubiquity that
threatens to gut any artwork. Think Mona Lisa. Still, as with Lisa,
when that kind of success persists through the centuries, there are
reasons.
read on here-
http://slate.msn.com/id/2084948/
Neb Rodgers <[log in to unmask]>
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