All of those trailers for the upcoming Game Change movie on HBO--with Ed Harris as John McCain--only remind me that Ed, of course, also starred in Copying Beethoven. In our new book, I describe Ed's Ludwig as basically "John Glenn in a fright wig." But no matter. The movie is only so-so but the scene depicting the premiere of the Ninth Symphony has been widely-hailed, although historically inaccurate (Beethoven did not conduct and there was no lovely young woman in the pit directing his moves). Anyway, here's that scene in all its glory:
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