Beethoven Academie Auctioned on eBay
 

A Belgian chamber orchestra, the Beethoven Academie, recently lost its 2007 government funding, so it is selling itself to the highest bidder on eBay!

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There are 83 bids so far. The Beethoven Academie specializes in late-classical & early-romantic music. It is "Eroica" sized: that is, 35 instrumentalists, based on the size of the orchestra for which Beethoven wrote his Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major (Opus 55), which altered the course of Western music from that time forward.

This orchestra would be ideal for us ledgies: dream performances at our command!

I think it's really sad that the arts are losing funding so rapidly.

D'you think if I bought them they'd play Mendelssohn's 5th for me? Or would that be sacrilege? :laugh: David, let's buy them and then arrange our favorite FM/Stevie songs for orchestra. :D