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NEWS ABOUT: Beethoven

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Tweeting Beethoven a Noteworthy Development

Tech assist enhances classical experience

Jul 30, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a bid to win over multitaskers and technophobes, the National Symphony Orchestra will tweet along with tonight's performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, the Washington Post reports. Audience members with appropriate gadgets can sit in a special section on the lawn at Wolf Trap, in suburban Virginia, and follow... More »

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music • technology • classical music • National Symphony Orchestra • audiences • promotion • Twitter • Beethoven • tweet

(Newser) - A diamond company plans to turn the King of Pop's hair into bling, the New York Daily News reports. Company officials claim they have a lock of Michael Jackson's hair—obtained from the producer of the Pepsi commercial that set the singer's hair ablaze—and it intends to extract the... More »

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hair • celebrity • carbon • diamond • Michael Jackson • Beethoven • celebrity death

Noisy Teens Sentenced to Manilow Sessions

'Music misery' sentences used to bring noisemakers in line

Jan 21, 09 3:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Call it cruel and unusual punishment—or at least unusual. When a Colorado judge sentences teenagers guilty of blasting car stereos too loud in Fort Lupton, he often imposes a session of enforced "musical misery," the Los Angeles Times reports. That means a Friday night in his courtroom... More »

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music • Willie Nelson • Colorado • Pink Floyd • teenager • Barry Manilow • noise violation • Barney • Beethoven • Simon & Garfunkel • Bing Crosby

Schroeder 'Played' Real Beethoven 

Schulz's love of classical music came through in comic

Jan 14, 09 5:39 AM CST
(Newser) - The written notes that rose over Schroeder's piano weren't just doodles, scholars studying Peanuts tell the New York Times. Charles Schulz loved classical music as much as his Beethoven-obsessed character and carefully transcribed notes from real Beethoven scores to provide a soundtrack for every comic strip in which Schroeder was... More »

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classical music • Peanuts • comic strips • Charles Schulz • Beethoven

 Fonda Heads Back to Broadway 

Starring role marks return after 46 years

Dec 5, 08 11:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Jane Fonda will have another chance to add a Tony to her collection when she returns to Broadway after a 46-year absence, Playbill reports. Fonda, who made her Broadway debut in 1960, will star in Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations as Katherine Brandt, a musicologist working... More »

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music • theater • Broadway • Jane Fonda • celebrity • play • Beethoven

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