Bob Kasenchak wrote: >But, I'm sure Andrew agrees with me that Mozart's best symphony is his >39th. > >40th. -Then- 39th. Then 41st. Bearing in Mind Bill(Y)'s E-Mail address:- he reckons by the time One gets past "Linz" = it is time to go elsewhere for Great Mozart Symphonies - But Bill(Y) is Very Biased & HE Knows that he is!! Walter Meyer wrote of Beethoven's 9th: >The word "Friede" (peace) is absent from the 8-9 stanza text of Schiller's >"An die Freude" and, a fortiori, from the fragment set to music in the >Ninth Symphony." I think there is the "famous" Word Translation Enigma occurring Around Here?? Hadn't Herr B just lived thru the Napoleonic Wars including the Shelling of Wien?? Surely a word like "Peace" means different things to Bob Marley than to Ludwig ?? Karl Miller wrote: >Anyone for Tubby the Tuba narrated by Annette? It DOES get "worse" there's a Recording somewhere of "Dame Edna Everage" or Mr Barry Humpries doing something like Peter - the "Down Under" Version!! ;-) Stokowski also had a Nashless "Carnival of the Animals" on 78's. This may be that thing that Dame Edna did = Possums and Roos!! Bill(Y).