Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony #9 "Choral"

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8. One thing I might add about the 9th Symphony

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Part of the 2nd movement was the theme song for either the NBC Nightly News or the Huntley-Brinkley Report in the 1960s. As a kid, II really loved that, but I didn't know what music it was. Then, one Christmas Eve, they played a longer part of the 4th movement. My brother, who was more into contemporary rock at the time, told me it was Beethoven's 9th. I was so enamored with it that I asked a local radio station to play the entire symphony for me in their Sunday classical music show. I was 13 at the time. I loved it so much that I bought a cassette tape of the symphony, performed by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. I played that tape so much that it broke in my cassette player