Funeral movement from Beethoven's Third Symphony. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

The Funeral movement from Beethoven's Third Symphony was played by the Boston Symphony when JFK was assassinated.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has always been a symbol of victory, presumably because the first four notes are the same as the "V" in Morse Code. For me the person Beethoven was physically and psychologically pained, yet this symphony ends as a victory celebration. Beethoven's symphonies are a metaphor for the power of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.

Kenneth Bannerman