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Great composers have not neglected the fanfare. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote one for four trumpets in the Christmas Cantata. Beethoven followed the traditional military style of trumpets in unison in Fidelia. Other flourishes are found in Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn...
While the bridal couple exchange wreaths, another girl recites a doleful lay: "Never has a nation struggled so bitterly. We die, we starve, we stand. . . . Straight ahead we look ... we do our bitter duty." Then rings are exchanged to the tune of Beethoven's I Love Thee. But there is no singing. Reason: "the words of the song are unsuitable...
...becomes an aural trunk murder. Eisenstein's appalling scene in which soldiers drive civilians down a great flight of steps. in Odessa (Potemkiri) has also been tampered with -it is now a shambles instead of a few minutes of cinema as brilliantly organized as a movement in a Beethoven symphony...
...Beethoven 2) Tschaikovsky 3) Mozart 4) Wagner 5) Schubert 6) Bach 7) Richard Strauss 8) Gershwin 9) Johann Strauss 10) Liszt 11) Handel 12) Verdi...
...Beethoven was a man of colossal genius, originality and definitiveness; Eliot is not. That might make all the difference in the world; it makes a good deal less than might be supposed. For Eliot, if he lacks major genius, is nevertheless a man of fine intellect, of profound spiritual intelligence, and of poetic talents which, if "minor," are nevertheless unmatched in his generation. And his subject is of a dignity which, if approached with these abilities, makes excellent poetry unavoidable and great poetry possible...