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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2012-04-01 23:52
Somewhat in the same vein, Quantum Quirks of a Quick Quaint Quark, by Marga Richter, recorded by Gerard Schwarz, Czech Radio Orchestra.
richard smith
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Author: Ed
Date: 2012-04-02 00:53
I love their April 1 stories. A few years ago there was one about maple trees exploding due to sap pressure that was building up because the trees were untapped. They do a great job of leading you on and then drop in something that is pretty outrageous so you think "WHAT? hey wait a minute!"
Love it.
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Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2012-04-04 13:04
This was great! However, I wonder if NPR realized that there really is a Beethoven's Tenth--sort of. Beethoven intended to write another symphony after his ninth, and left fragments which were later "completed" by musicologist Barry Cooper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._10_%28Beethoven/Cooper%29
Amazon offers a recording of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Symphony-realized-Barry-Cooper/dp/B004KCDXI0/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1333543882&sr=1-2-fkmr1
Back when I was in college, a musicology professor told us about the Jena symphony, an early Beethoven symphony written before his first. It is now believed that it was really composed by Friedrich Witt. I found an article once
which pointed out that when it was thought Beethoven was the actual composer, the work was praised as a fine early composition from a great master. When Witt was discovered to be the real composer, the symphony suddenly became nothing special.
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