Beethoven's belated 250th birthday celebrations 1770—1827 In the disco Sometime during the gogo-booted, bell-bottomed, maxi-dressed, mirror-balled, shag-carpeted, non-manscaped harvest-gold wasteland that was the seventies, someone took the first few bars of Beethoven's fifth symphony, set them to a disco beat and called it "A Fifth of Beethoven." A fifth. A mickey. Something to slip into … Continue reading “…Gagged and Bound and Flogged with Chords of Joy…” →