The author came up with the idea of building an entire book around the first four notes of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. 277 pages, plus extensive notes and a detailed index. Some reviewer made it sound interesting to me.I'll agree that pretty much everyone recognizes the four-note sequence, that Beethoven was of course a very important figure, etc. But the author was really straining to connect all sorts of events in political, cultural and musical history to this sequence - which quickly became tiresome to me.
So I blew through this one rather rapidly, and didn't learn much.
Postscript: watching Diamondbacks play Dodgers for parts of a series on May 6 through May 8 - not sure if this happens regularly at Dodger Stadium - but quite often during these games the stadium sound system was booming out "The First Four Notes."
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