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To: Eleutheria5
Possibly the greatest nine minutes of recorded music in history....

Beethoven's 5th, 4th movement by Karajan and Berlin P. O.

35 posted on 12/17/2012 2:52:09 PM PST by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: catfish1957
It was strange watching all those middle-aged men in suits play the 4th movement of Beethoven's 5th back in 1966. Imagine that, the entire orchestra (except for Karajan - who wore a black sweater) in suits and ties, all looking like Allan Sherman.

1966. After their performance, they probably got into their cars to go home and heard The Beatles come over the car stereo. "What kind of hippy-dippy crap is that" they probably muttered under their breath as they steered their cars into the traffic-jammed caverns of Manhattan.

Many of them probably saw "Bewitched" on TV that night and harbored at least a little crush for Elizabeth Montgomery (hell, even today I wish I had a wife like Elizabeth Montgomery) while they sipped their gin and tonics.

I bet nobody in the orchestra that day (all men!) ever imagined that their performance that day would be available on demand for slobs like me on laptop computers and hand-held tablets where we would be able to comment upon their performance and even poke a little fun at them from their 21st Century wired-to-the-max homes.

37 posted on 12/17/2012 4:36:02 PM PST by SamAdams76
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