Why no Beethoven?

[Jeebo]

This is for the people who run the classical music station on Sirius satellite radio. I hope somebody there will read my comments because I do not know how to contact them otherwise.

They are playing a Memorial Day holiday weekend list of the top 76 favorite symphonies, voted on by their listeners. I have been doing other things elsewhere in the house while only peripherally paying attention to the music, but I think the host just said during an interlude between symphonies that Beethoven's symphonies are not being considered for the list.

WHY???

That's like a symphony orchestra with no violins, that's like a restaurant without chairs, that's like ... well, come up with your own similes. I think the host said (again, I was only paying peripheral attention) that they are going to play all nine Beethoven symphonies in the next week, but so what? WHY would you not even consider including Beethoven in a list of favorite symphonies? That makes absolutely no sense.

I didn't know about the voting in this fan favorite poll, but if I had, I would have included two Beethoven symphonies (#3 and #7) in my top five and probably four, maybe five, in my top 10. Excluding Beethoven symphonies from all consideration is utterly incomprehensible to me.

-- Ron