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...Quarrymen. By the following year, the group had been joined by McCartney and his school friend George Harrison, then just 14. In 1960, calling themselves the Silver Beatles, and with drummer Pete Best in tow, they sailed to Germany to play the riotous red-light-district bars of Hamburg, drink Herculean quantities of beer and gulp down handfuls of illicitly energizing pills to keep them stage ready seven nights a week...
GEORGE HARRISON proved last week that if you're rich and famous enough, you can paper over some of the errors of your youth. Harrison went to court and persuaded a judge to stop the sale of a recording of the Beatles singing drunkenly in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. What Harrison called one of the band's "crummiest" performances was caught on tape when the not-yet Fab Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted...
Mahler wrote his third symphony in the summer of 1895 while he was on holiday from the Hamburg Opera. He composed this symphony of seven movements in a cabin near a lake at the edge of a field. In the one room cabin there was only enough space for a baby grand a desk, chairs and a stove for heat. This symphony reflects his change of setting; it doesn't follow the style of traditional symphonies as Mahler put things together as he chose without any attention to traditional movement form. After letting his first two symphonies stand without...
...over 160, comprised of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, took place behind the empty chairs for the performance of Fest und Gedenkspruche, Op. 109. Brahms composed this piece, a collection of three songs, in 1889 as a tribute to Hamburg's liberation. Brahms intended them both as a celebration of Germany's victory in the Franco-German war of 1870-1871 and an expressed hope that Germany would live up to her glorious past...
Margret Rey was born Margret Elizabeth Waldstein in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1906. She attended Bauhaus, the Dusseldorf Academy of Art and the University of Munich...