Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

I know it's very upsetting.

How dare they? It was very upsetting.

The price dropped from $5.80 to $2.30 at one stage. Even now it is languishing around $3, so the shareholders have lost almost $1 billion in value.

The word 'lobby' is one of those loaded terms that sounds like a political dirty bag of tricks.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.