WGBH-FM audio when JFK's death was announced

[Fenway1912]

This is something I have never heard.

The first link is WGBH's William Pierce setting up the Friday afternoon Boston Symphony broadcast.

[h=1]Boston Symphony Audience Learns of the Death of JFK[/h]
The complete Beethoven's Third Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVNKNz-lc6k#t=377

 

[Shellanswerman]

No, it's NOT the complete Third Symphony by Beethoven but the second movement alone. The name of Beethoven's Third Symphony is "Eroica" or "Heroic" in English. The second movement is a funeral march. You may say "who wants to listen to a funeral march?", but there are numerous classical works who include such music often in memory of a great person.

 

[Fenway1912]

No, it's NOT the complete Third Symphony by Beethoven but the second movement alone. The name of Beethoven's Third Symphony is "Eroica" or "Heroic" in English. The second movement is a funeral march. You may say "who wants to listen to a funeral march?", but there are numerous classical works who include such music often in memory of a great person.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[frnkp2000]

Instead of trying to "one-up" each other all the time, can't we just appreciate the intention of the OP? Thank you Fenway for the contribution. It's an emotional and moving moment in our nation's history.