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...Marco Polo returned from the Orient with a recipe for some sort of frozen dessert with milk in it. Catherine de Medicis appears to have introduced sherbets and ices, possibly ice cream, to France in 1533, when she arrived there with her retinue to marry the future Henry II. Beethoven, during the mild winter of 1794, feared that there would not be enough ice for the next summer to make ice cream in Vienna...
...recognize that the last six quartets of Beethoven are supremely beautiful, but I enjoy Schubert more. Yet I can't say that I, or anyone else, ought to enjoy Beethoven more." Over lunch the students continue the debate with passionate interest...
...April 29, 7:05 p.m.--A bronze, life-size mask of Beethoven was stolen from the Paine Music Library. The mask's estimated value...
...Stravinsky's and less influential than Arnold Schoenberg's, it is no less important. BartÓk wrote music of irresistible power and drive, music that in its uncompromising frankness and depth of expression discomfited audiences used to the prettifications of romanticism. Like other great musical figures - Beethoven and Wagner come immediately to mind - BartÓk was a destroyer as well as a creator. Emerging from the 19th century Western European tradition, he changed it irrevocably...
...Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, liberating drums, cymbals and gongs from their traditional role as accompanists and inspiring his successors to use percussion instruments in bolder and more imaginative ways. In his six String Quartets, generally acknowledged as the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's, the dense, intricate writing challenged the minds, ears and fingers of string players and set a new standard of formal complexity that opened the way for such works as the quartets of Elliott Carter. The Mikrokosmos, 153 short piano studies of increasing difficulty, is an indispensable introduction to 20th century...