Klarinet Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 1999/07

From: Stephanie Hooker <clarinet_88@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Beethoven's Finale
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:50:29 -0400

This is cute....enjoy the read!! --stephanie

Beethoven's Finale

When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A
couple days
later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard
some
strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried.
Terrified,
the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it. The
priest bent
close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music
coming from
the grave. Frightened, the priest ran and got the town
magistrate.

When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave,
listened for a
moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony,
being
played backwards."

He listened a while longer, and said, "There's the Eighth
Symphony, and
it's backwards, too. Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept
listening;
"There's the Seventh... the Sixth... the Fifth..."

Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the
magistrate;
he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the
cemetery,
"My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about. It's just
Beethoven
decomposing."

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