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This week, Tidbits is tuning into the facts on several famous composers who brought us some of the world’s favorite music. • Although many folks lump all of “classical music” together, there are actually four main periods of classification based on the time frame and characteristics of the music. The music of each period has traits that distinguish it from another. The Baroque Period is considered from 1600-1750, with its complex melodies composed by Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi, among others. During the Classical Period from 1750-1825, composers such as Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven wrote music with well-defined form, for example, the sonata, symphony, and concerto. Music composed during the Romantic Period from 1825 to the early 20th century became more expressive and emotional. Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, and Schumann were some of the main composers during this era. The music of the 20th century abandoned structural rules and introduced news styles and ideas, composed by such geniuses as Ravel, Stravinsky, Debussy, and Shostakovich. • Ludwig von Beethoven was becoming a well-known composer at age 30 and was already experiencing the disastrous indications of deafness. • Beethoven experienced severe tinnitus, conveying his feelings in his writings,” My ears whistle and roar incessantly, night and day. I can say that I am leading a miserable life.” By age 31, he had lost 60% of his hearing, and by 46, he was completely deaf. Several causes have been suggested including lead poisoning or typhus. An autopsy revealed that three small bones of his inner ear were fused together, as well as being covered in lesions. Although Beethoven’s public performances lessened due to his deafness, his composing continued, writing his breathtaking Ninth Symphony after completely losing his hearing. • Beethoven composed nine symphonies, 16 string quartets, 32 piano sonatas, five piano concertos, a violin concerto, and an opera. This doesn’t begin to include the enormous amount of his chamber music and piano compositions. Careful listeners to his music can detect his intense emotions and love of nature. Various instruments create the sound of a wind and rain storm in the country, following by the serenity of the storm’s end. His use of trills on the violin imitate the chirping of insects and birds, while soft instrumental sounds mimic a flowing brook. Continued Page 2...

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• Even folks who are not classical music fans will most likely recognize compositions by Peter Tchaikovsky, the composer of The Nutcracker Suite, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo & Juliet, and In all, researchers have speculated on nearly 120 Swan Lake. This Russian composer was able to different causes of death. read French and German by the age of six. He • Robert Schumann unintentionally ruined his entered law school and worked as a clerk but chance at a career as a pianist when he experitook music lessons on the side, beginning to mented with a device claiming to strengthen fincompose. He married in his mid-30s, but left his gers. Johann Logier had designed a contraption, wife after a few weeks, claiming she “possessed the “Chiroplast” that pulled the fingers toward the little intelligence.” back of the hand, stating that it would increase • Tchaikovsky was befriended by an anonymous finger flexibility and strength. Permanently debilitated benefactor, a very wealthy widow who financed by the invention, Schumann diverted his efforts toward him while he composed. The pair exchanged composing and became one of the greatest composers more than 1,000 letters over the next 13 years, of the Romantic Period. However, the artist was plagued but, upon her insistence, never met face to face. throughout much of his life by anxiety, panic attacks, and The widow abruptly terminated the relationship, fits of rage and violence. Two years before his death, he claiming she was broke, an unfounded claim. attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Rhine Tchaikovsky never heard from her again. His River. Rescued by passing fishermen, Schumann was death remains a mystery, with some claiming he admitted to an asylum, where he died two killed himself. The more acyears later at 46. cepted explanation is death • The eccentric French composer Erik Satie from cholera after drinkwore nothing but identical gray velvet suits ing contaminated drinking and called himself The Velvet Gentleman. water. His death came just He walked across Paris each day, a round one week after the premiere trip of about 10 miles, carrying a hammer of his Symphony Pathetique, in his pocket for protection. As a youth, he considered by many to be was enrolled in the Paris Conservatory, but his greatest work. had nothing but scorn for the institution. He • Considered the world’s first remained there only to avoid military service, real child prodigy, Wolfgang and was labeled “untalented” and “worthAmadeus Mozart began less” by his teacher, receiving the nickname studying violin and harpsiof “laziest student in the Conservatory.” Stuchord at age 3. At 5, he was dents were allowed to serve just one year in performing at the Univerthe military rather than the normal five. When sity of Salzburg and before Satie was drafted, he served less than a year, Vienna’s Imperial Court the Mozart deliberately contracting bronchitis to obtain following year. He was 6 when he began coma release. He went on to become a popular composer, posing minuets and other short pieces. His first with his most famous compositions Trois Gymnopedies. symphony came along at age 8 and an opera When he died of cirrhosis of the liver, there was so much at 12. Mozart received all of his education from garbage in his apartment that friends threw out two his father, and never attended a school. He carloads before his papers and manuscripts could be frequently experienced anxiety, loneliness, and located. More on Composers Next Page! sadness, and occasionally exhibited the symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome and bipolarism. Although he only lived to age 35, he composed more than 600 pieces, including 68 symphonies, 27 piano concertos, horn concertos, violin and piano sonatas, and many volumes of string quartet music. • The cause of Mozart’s death has never been definitely determined. It’s been hypothesized as everything from “severe miliary fever” to trichinosis, mercury poisoning, and rheumatic fever.

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MORE ON COMPOSERS... • You may have never heard of Richard Wagner, but you’ve undoubtedly heard his most famous composition from the 1850 opera Lohengrin. The opera’s “Bridal Chorus” has been used at weddings since 1858 when Queen Victoria’s daughter chose the piece for her procession into the church. Today, we call it “Here Comes the Bride.” Another familiar Wagner tune is “Ride of the Valkyries,” which you may know better as “Kill the Wabbit,” a song Elmer Fudd sings in a 1957 Warner Brothers cartoon. History’s longest opera, The Ring Cycle, was also composed by Wagner, a production that takes well over 15 hours to perform. He began the opera in 1848, composing the text over the next four years. However, it took until 1874 for all of the music to be composed. • We almost didn’t have the glorious music of George Frederic Handel, composer of “The Messiah.” His father wanted him to become a lawyer, and prevented George from playing musical instruments. Handel practiced secretly on a clavichord hidden in his home’s attic. Finally, when he was nine, his father heard him playing and allowed him to study music. By the time he was 10, Handel was composing for the organ, oboe, and violin, and a year later began composing church cantatas and chamber music. At 19, he had composed the first of his 50 operas. A stroke at age 52 impaired the movement of his right hand, but after just six weeks, he had fully recuperated. Even a second stroke and complete blindness in the ensuing years couldn’t keep Handel from his love of composition. He continued to write music until his death at 74 in 1759. • Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach fathered 20 children in his two marriages, only 10 of whom survived to adulthood. Five out of his six sons became professional musicians and/ or composers.

• The story of Franz Josef Haydn’s HEAD is a complicated one! Haydn, who composed more than 100 symphonies, was employed as a court musician by Hungary’s wealthiest nobility, the Esterhazy family, living on their vast estate outside Vienna. When he died in 1809, Prince Esterhazy buried Haydn in the city’s Hundestrum Cemetery. A pair of individuals (including Esterhazy’s former assistant, Joseph Rosenbaum) believed that the shape and bumps of a skull could give insight into a person’s intelligence and they schemed to steal Haydn’s head. They bribed the cemetery caretaker who broke open the casket and cut off the head. Rosenbaum had it dissected, the brain removed, and the skull bleached. He kept it in a special display case in his home. Eleven years later, when the Prince desired to transfer Haydn’s remains to his estate cemetery, he discovered the head was missing, with only a wig resting in its place. Rosenbaum’s home was searched but his wife hid the skull in bed with her, claiming to be ill. Rosenbaum gave police a different skull from his collection, which was then buried with Haydn. • In 1829, Joseph Rosenbaum died and bequeathed the skull to his fellow thief with the provision that it must be turned over to Vienna’s Society of the Friends of Music. The will was not respected and the head ended up at the University of Vienna. It was not until 1895 that the head came to the Society, where it sat on a pedestal until 1954. Finally, in July of that year, it was given back to the Esterhazy family, who reunited it with Haydn’s remains in a new copper coffin, and laid him to rest in a Mausoleum at Eisenstadt City Church.

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Fourth of July Sidewalk Parade It’s time for a sidewalk parade! Whether it’s on the Fourth of July, or anytime all summer long, decorate bikes, trikes, scooters, skates and wagons, wear a funny hat and strike up the band. A couple of families with a few motivated kids is really all it takes to make it happen. Gather kids of all ages in your neighborhood, and get marching to the beat of family fun and memory-making. Here are some ideas to stage the informal, high-spirited event:

• Make and deliver fliers or send emails to announce the sidewalk parade. Designate a place where kids can gather for a pre-parade decorating party. Your deck, driveway, backyard or a local park can be the gathering spot. Tie ribbons, streamers and flags to bikes and wagons. Make signs and banners. • Put your child’s teddy bear or other

stuffed animals on parade, too. Decorate the long sides of a wagon to make it look like a circus wagon. Fill it with their favorite animals. Some kids might like to dress like a clown, while others can be a circus ringmaster or tightrope walker. • Teens may enjoy participating, too. They can hand out brochures along the mini parade route or wear a sandwich board advertising their services for mowing lawns, babysitting or watering plants for vacationers. • For post-parade fun, make the day a real picnic and top off the event with snacks, appetizers, a potluck meal or a barbecue. For dessert, set out tubs of ice cream on a picnic table. Ask families to bring their favorite toppings. • Enjoy a memorable finale with a few games that everyone will enjoy, such as an egg toss, water-balloon volleyball and relay races. Some kids may want to perform impromptu juggling acts, magic shows and songs. Encourage participants to match up with new families on the block or in the building so everyone gets acquainted.

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NOTEWORTHY INVENTORS.... LES PAUL ERIC CLAPTON, BOB MARLEY, AND LED ZEPPELIN’S JIMMY PAGE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE THOUSANDS OF MUSICIANS WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO PLAY A LES PAUL GUITAR! LES PAUL WASN’T JUST THE INVENTOR OF A PHENOMENAL ELECTRIC GUITAR. FOLLOW ALONG AND LEARN ABOUT HIS MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS.... . • Les Paul was 8 when he began playing the harmonica, followed by the guitar. At age 9, he had already built a crystal radio. Wanting to play the harmonica and guitar at the same time, as a teenager he fashioned a holder from a metal coat hanger, shaping it to go over his shoulGHUV DQG VRRQ KH KDG KLV ÂżUVW SDWHQW • Soon afterward, Paul stuck the needle of his parents’ record player into the surface of his acoustic guitar, and was struck with the idea of an electric guitar. Before long, he had wired a phonograph needle to his guitar and connected it to a radio speaker to amplify his acoustic guitar. However, Paul was unhappy with the hollow-body guitar, and determined to make a solidbody one that would have less feedback and a richer sound because of the wood’s mass. • He happened to live across from a railroad track where workers would throw defective rails under a bridge. Retrieving a cast-off, Paul whittled it down to a 4x4 piece, with a neck, bridge, pickup, and tuners attached, naming it “The Log.â€? In 1940, the Epiphone guitar factory helped produce a more attractive version with curved sides and an Epiphone fretboard. • Paul’s work was slowed down in 1941 when he was experimenting with improvements to his guitar and was severely electrocuted, an injury that required two years of recuperation. • Unhappy with the way his own recordings sounded, at the suggestion of crooner Bing Crosby, Paul built his own recording studio. It was here that he perfected multi-tracked recordings. +LV PHWKRG ZDV WR ÂżUVW UHFRUG D WUDFN RQWR D GLVF WKHQ UHFRUG KLPVHOI SOD\LQJ DQRWKHU SDUW ZLWK WKH ÂżUVW ERWK RI ZKLFK ZHUH PL[HG WRJHWKHU RQWR D QHZ WUDFN 7KH SURFHVV ZDV UHSHDWHG DGGing a third layer, then another and another, each time mixing it with all the previous layers on a fresh disc. Paul also experimented with playing some of the parts at half speed, then playing them back at the actual rate. He fabricated his disc-cutter assembly using auto parts, includLQJ D Ă€\ZKHHO IURP D &DGLOODF +LV UHFRUGLQJ RI Âł/RYHU :KHQ <RXÂśUH 1HDU 0H´ UHTXLUHG DERXW 500 acetate discs to complete, on which he played eight different electric guitar parts. He later VZLWFKHG WR PDJQHWLF WDSH FRPPLVVLRQLQJ $PSH[ WR EXLOG WKH ÂżUVW HLJKW WUDFN UHFRUGHU /HV Paul was also responsible for the invention of echo, delay, and reverb. • In 1948, Paul was in a near-fatal auto accident, which sent his Buick convertible off the side of an overpass and 20 feet (6.1 m) into a ravine. He nearly lost his right arm, but doctors were able to set it to a 90-degree angle with seven screws which enabled him to play the guitar. • In his 90s, Les Paul still hadn’t give up inventing. Having to wear two hearing aids, he was GLVVDWLVÂżHG ZLWK WKHLU TXDOLW\ +H ZDV VWLOO SOD\LQJ ZHHNO\ JLJV LQ 1HZ <RUN &LW\ EXW VSHQW KLV free time working on improving hearing aids. He passed away in 2009 at age 94. ¡¡¡

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1. In 2014, Billy Hamilton set a Cincinnati Reds rookie record for most stolen bases (56). Who had held the mark? 2. The Chicago Cubs’ Jorge Soler, in 2014, became the third player since 1914 to have an extra-base hit in his first five major-league games. Name one of the other two. 3. Who are the only three men to win a Super Bowl as both a NFL player and a head coach? 4. Name the last players before Creighton’s Doug McDermott (201214) to be picked to three consecutive Associated Press All-American teams. 5. In 2015, St. Louis’ Ken Hitchcock became the fourth coach in NHL history to win 700 games. Name two of the first three. 6. When was the last time before 2014 that Algeria’s men’s soccer team won a game at the World Cup? 7. Name the last horse before American Pharoah in 2015 to win the Kentucky Derby from the No. 15 post. Answers 1. Bob Bescher, who had 54 stolen bases in 1909. 2. Enos Slaughter (1938) and Will Middlebrooks (2012). 3. Mike Ditka, Tony Dungy and Tom Flores. 4. Patrick Ewing and Wayman Tisdale, 1983-85. 5. Scotty Bowman (1,244 wins), Al Arbour (782) and Joel Quenneville (754). 6. It was 1982. 7. Orb, in 2013.

1. Bob Bescher, who had 54 stolen bases in 1909. 2. Enos Slaughter (1938) and Will Middlebrooks (2012). 3. Mike Ditka, Tony Dungy and Tom Flores. 4. Patrick Ewing and Wayman Tisdale, 1983-85. 5. Scotty Bowman (1,244 wins), Al Arbour (782) and Joel Quenneville (754). 6. It was 1982. 7. Orb, in 2013.

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