So far as music is concerned, the U.S. State Department is all set for the peace. To Radio Conductor Don Voorhees, who had asked for pointers on a day-of-victory broadcast, the State Department last week made its position perfectly clear. In fact, it went to town.
The program, it decided, should lead off with the "V for Victory" theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony blown on a trumpet, then fade in with the D Major theme from the Choral Finale of Beethoven's Ninth (played by low strings). After a break for announcement of the occasion, the orchestra should swing into the complete...
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