BEETHOVEN, A UE E A MORTE DO OKAPI


(crânio de okapi)

"Shhhh! Mute the brass, and please - go easy on the cymbals!

A European Union directive on noise abatement contains a provision that will limit the 'noise' of symphony orchestras beginning early next year.

While it's not meant to ban Beethoven's 'ba-ba-ba-baah', some musicians are worried overzealous enforcement could take the 'Joy' out of the German master's exuberant 'Ode to ...'

'It can't work in symphony orchestras', says Libor Pesek, conductor of the Prague Symphony. 'How could you apply it to Gustav Mahler, for instance, or Richard Strauss?'

Though musicians bristle at the claim, some evidence suggests the classics are just loud noise for the non-music lover. In the 1990s, opera singers rehearsing in a Copenhagen park apparently caused a rare African okapi at the nearby zoo to collapse and die from stress".

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(2007)