Five Plus Nine
Two Beethoven Symphonies from Dunedin stations in one week, and those the Ninth and the Fifth! The comparison was inevitable. Argument can always be engendered among musicians as to the effectiveness of the introduction of voices into an orchestral work, and there will never be any agreement between those who consider that Beethoven made a colossal blunder in bringing a chorus into the Ninth, and those who declare that this joyous outpouring of song is a fitting climax, not only to this particular symphony, but to the entire nine! Since no original comment is possible, I take a minor place between the two groups, maintaining that the symphony is too long and the voices incongruous, but being humbly eager to listen as often as a station will broadcast it. And I maintain in the face of anyone who accuses me of triteness, that the Fifth is still the most dramatic of all symphonies, in spite of what the exploiters of the commercial value of the V-sign have done for its opening bars.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 11
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175Five Plus Nine New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 11
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