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- From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Most drawn-out endings
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.171512.17441@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <27DEC199212540329@deimos.caltech.edu> <BzyAFK.KMs@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:15:12 GMT
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- tony@cns.nyu.edu (Tony Movshon) writes:
- | In article 27DEC199212540329@deimos.caltech.edu, inr@deimos.caltech.edu (I. Neill Reid) writes:
- | > Has to be Beethoven's Overture Leonore no.4
- |
- | Indeed, a very drawn-out ending, since it was never begun :-) (There are
- | only 3 Leonores -- the "fourth" would be the Fidelio Overture, which is
- | actually quite compact).
-
- Well, it helps if you know that Beethoven's Leonore no. 4 isn't by
- Beethoven.
-
- My copy of the Hoffnung recording doesn't list the decomposer, but it
- does involve a band of buskers, who play the Leonore theme offstage at
- inappropriate times, the piccolo smuggling in the tune "Hayseeds", and a
- prolonged injoke about the fanfare, which is eventually resolved by the
- entire Royal Military School of Music trumpet section, not in unison.
-
- Well worth a listen or two.
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