You Can't Whistle The Finale From Beethoven's Fifth Symphony!
Sermons on the Second Readings
Halford Luccock, onetime professor of homiletics at Yale Divinity School, told of going to a children's musical recital when a program announcement caught his attention. The announcer said, "And now Daisy Smith is going to whistle The Finale from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony." In horror, Luccock muttered under his breath, "No she isn't. It can't be whistled!" Luccock had it right. It takes a full orchestra of strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion along with an able conductor. The Finale from Beethoven's Fifth is no solo job!