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Works with the title Symphony No. 9 include: - Source: Wikipedia

As the man left holding the baton when musicians walked off the job six months ago, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Leonard Slatkin said the most difficult thing was standing by as the strike played out.

Reading Harvey Sachs' meditation on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the era in which it was produced - grim post-revolutionary and post-Napoleonic Europe - is like taking a short course in music appreciation with your favorite professor.