Steve Schwartz writes regarding Shapero's Symphony for Classical Orchestra: >In the last movement, Shapero makes his intent plain with an unmistakable >shard of Beethoven's Seventh, which he nevertheless integrates into the >movement itself - a surprise, but not a surprise. Suddenly, the previous >movements come into sharp focus, and you marvel at how something so >original owes so much to its predecessor. Something very similar is done by Sir Michael Tippett in his Third Symphony with its use of Beethoven's Ninth. - seb