Each week, in internal memos and email tipsheets like Politico’s Playbook, hundreds of transitions are announced, often in sections titled, unimaginatively, “Transitions.”

Heavy-handed, unimaginatively profane and generically violent, this sequel to “Olympus Has Fallen” shifts the excitement from the White House to London.

The unimaginatively named Mannes Beethoven Institute has in recent years reached far beyond Beethoven, pairing his works with those by contemporary composers.