Several readers have written in to say that the Scherzo from the Ninth has been used on television before: to accompany The Huntley-Brinkley Report, once NBC’s flagship news program.

P.S. When we say “the Ninth,” you know whose we mean — not Schubert’s, not Bruckner’s, not Mahler’s . . .

P.P.S. “Huntley-Brinkley” was kind of catchy, wasn’t it? Two two-syllable names ending in “ley.” I think NBC kind of lucked out there. (Couldn’t have been deliberate, right?)