However, as to the length of the symphonies, I'd be willing to be the majority of symphonies are under 30 minutes. I don't think any symphony reached 40+ minutes in length until the Eroica.

Out of the 26 symphonies mentioned, only Beethoven 1&2 were written before Eroica.
All four of the Brahms symphonies are 45-60 minutes.
Tchaikovsky 4-6 are all 45 minutes or longer, not sure about 1-3 but I'd be willing to bet they're well over 30 minutes.
Some of the Sibelius symphonies are pretty obscure, but the 2 well known ones are both pushing an hour (and given Sibelius' style I'd be surprised if any of the others are less than 45)
The only ones that are considerably less than 40 minutes are some of the Beethoven...1 and 2 for sure, 7 is shortish...3,6, and 9 are all big, long works...have to admit I'm not that familiar with 4 or 8.

This is great news, but that's 26 complete symphonies, probably something along the lines of 17 hours of music (at an average of 40 minutes each...that's probably a little low actually). Add in rehearsal times and I have serious doubts about the feasibility of doing this for $13,000. I wish them luck, but I'd rather have less music at a higher quality than more with an amateur-level ensemble.

but because they settled out of court the lawyers got most of the settlement money, not the people

Horseshit. The lawyers took the same percentage from the settlement as they would have had they gone to court and won. And that percentage was not a secret amount undisclosed to the people who willingly made themselves a part of the class action. They were perfectly free to go after Paypal on their own if they didn't like the terms.

When someone does this sort of hacking/eavesdropping/snooping to a government official, it's called "a shocking invasion of...privacy and a violation of law."

Invasion of privacy, huh? That's interesting, since according to Republican politicians and the judges they put on the bench there is no such thing as a right to privacy.