Laurence Glavin wrote: > Could it be that there are more anecdotes about Beethoven than any other > composer? Anyway, about two years ago, James Levine performed the "Missa > Solemnis" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and in an interview with > the then more-prosperous Boston Globe, declared that work to be the > single greatest musical composition of which he was aware. Let's flip > the telescope: a few weeks earlier, National Public Radio queried listeners > as to what they thought might be the WORST piece of classical music! > The choice...Beethoven's "Wellington's Victory, or the Battle Symphony". Well, I suppose it depends on what you consider "classical". I'd consider Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio infinitely worse than Wellington's Sieg, which at keast has a few good tunes (even if Ludwig didn't write them). And I wonder when his Op.123 became TGPOMEW (The Greatest Piece Of Music Ever Written). Always used to be Bach's B minor Mass. Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html