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Mozart's Story
Mozart was known as a "musical prodigy", showing his musical talent from the age of 3, studying piano with his father at 4, composing music at 5, violin at 6, composing several sonatas, and symphonies at 8, and writing his first opera at 11. He lived to be just 36 years old. The heavy workload of composing, performing, and living in poverty damaged his health and caused him to pass away prematurely, and his musical works became a precious heritage of the world's musical treasures.
Michaell BrawnPublished 2 years ago in BeatSoundtrack of Life
Music has been a part of my life since before I was born. Not a single moment of my life has happened without music. The moments I feel most alive are at concerts. There's nothing better than feeling so bad, but being surrounded by a group of strangers being loud and sweaty screaming the lyrics to your favorite band. During those moments, everything else just fades away.
Dusti WestPublished 2 years ago in BeatThe 48-year-old DJ
(No, that's not me, she's just hot af.) Y’all remember March 2020? Yeah it was weird and none of us expected it to last very long, so we delved into the world of online communicating with gusto. All the online performances, the nightly online teas and morning coffees with friends, the dance parties, the million and one touching videos of people playing music together across balconies in Europe… It wasn’t that bad for a minute if you had internet access. But then of course, it kept going, and ‘Zoom fatigue’ entered our vocabulary.
Dori MondonPublished 2 years ago in BeatMontecito Lad Odyssey
Page’s father drove him up the coast with all his luggage, but the surfboard stayed in SB. His mother made sure of that. Page had been able to smuggle his wetsuit, however. His mother had insisted that it stay, but at the last minute, Page threw it into the car trunk from where he kept it in the garage. He was on the road before his mother noticed it was missing. Page knew his dad didn’t care if he brought it. His dad just wanted to keep things cool with mom or else he had no peace either. Page and his dad were on the same wavelength. They knew the main problem was keeping mom from freaking. She was a real bitch from hell when she did.
Brett Deforest MaxfieldPublished 2 years ago in BeatMontecito Lad Odyssey
The next day there was a phone call from the dean of admissions at Robert Louis Stevenson. He wanted Page to come up for an interview. Page and his mother drove up from Santa Barbara to Monterey that weekend. The school is located on the exclusive 17 Mile Drive where all the famous golf courses are. If you went to school at RLS you could play on one of the most prestigious of the golf courses for free, but Page couldn’t care less about that. Page’s father was a big golfer and Page had grown up around the country club scene. He hated it. It was fake. All he saw were a bunch of rich people who thought they were better than everyone else, who were taken up with materialism, who judged other people less fortunate than themselves, who couldn’t care less about helping others, and who he had to dress up before interacting with. Page’s mother was a grand duchess of the country club scene. She always made sure Page would know how to carry himself properly in that setting and as a result he felt very confident within it, but it repulsed him.
Brett Deforest MaxfieldPublished 2 years ago in BeatMontecito Lad Odyssey
After getting out of Juvenile Hall and getting chewed out by his parents, Page got a call from Cate about his future with the school. At the meeting with Mr. McCloud, the headmaster at Cate, it was decided that Page should find another school for his junior year. The rest of the week was spent contacting second tier prep schools to see about getting Page in at the last minute. It was early September and all the schools were just weeks away from beginning their fall semesters. It seemed odd, to be switching from a top school to a second tier school at this stage of the game to most admissions offices. However, Page had good grades and Mr. McCloud had promised to give excellent recommendations, not mentioning any of the trouble Page was continuously in. Basically, Mr. McCloud wanted to save face for Cate. Cate had a reputation of success and Mr. McCloud didn’t want Page to ruin that. Mr. McCloud was also a very human man. He knew that people screw up. He himself was having an affair with a teacher at the school at the time and was trying to have mercy on a sinner knowing that he himself was in need of mercy.
Brett Deforest MaxfieldPublished 2 years ago in BeatMontecito Lad Odyssey
A black sixty-eight GTO pulled into the 7-11 parking lot around 11:30 am. It had very dark tinted windows in the back. From the custom stereo emanated the powerful chords and riffs of Led Zeppelin. You could hear the music from across the street. There were two young lads just over sixteen in the car. They both got out and went into the store. Inside they immediately noticed that no one was around, including the store manager. The two looked at each other and smiled big, drunken, stupid smiles. The driver of the car, Page, walked over to a case of beer, picked it up, and walked out of the store to the back to his car.
Brett Deforest MaxfieldPublished 2 years ago in BeatMichael Moorcock: His Collaborations With Hawkwind and The Blue Öyster Cult
Introduction: On Michael Moorcock I first came across Michael Moorcock in the seventies through listening to Hawkwind, and that brought me to the four-book Runestaff set, which then introduced me to so many Multiverse novels and the Celtic Mythology Books of Corum of The Silver Hand, and Elric The Albino Stealer of Souls with his Black Blade, Stormbringer.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 2 years ago in BeatHow the music industry became pop culture, and how pop culture became music
Nowadays, when people say that they like “pop culture” music, they most likely mean “Top 40” music. But the pop vs. rock war wasn't always so apparent. For example, in the 1950s and through the early 1960s, some of the most popular musicians were The Beatles, while in the latter half of that decade and into the 1970s it was disco artists such as Bee Gees who scored big (and remain big today) with hits like Staying Alive and Stayin' Alive.
Laurine AsselinPublished 2 years ago in BeatRunning Up That Hill
In the 1980s, the song 'Running Up That Hill' was released by Kate Bush. Now, roughly forty years later, the same song has made a comeback due to the show 'Stranger Things' and the amazing storytelling that takes place within the series.
Brittany MillerPublished 2 years ago in BeatSongwriting Advice For Beginners
If you’ve never written a song before, or if you are struggling with a case of ‘songwriter’s block’, it can be difficult to make progress.
Alexander BelseyPublished 2 years ago in BeatKallus/Zeb - A 'Rebels' story
Initially premiering worldwide in October 2014 as a television movie, ‘Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion’ grew into a top-rated animated television series. Running from 2014 to 2018 with four Emmy nominations, the series was the first major Star Wars project released since Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm Ltd in 2012. From the beginning, the foundation of ‘Rebels’ was the validity of found family. The trope has been popularly used in ‘Star Wars’ media since the early days and ‘Rebels’ beautifully crafted it into the script. The crucial & unique relationship dynamics are what truly made ‘Rebels’ the great show it was. Hera Syndulla & Kanan Jarrus take the position of Father and Mother throughout the show while Garazeb Orrelios, Sabine Wren, and Ezra Bridger are endeared as the children. But it is not just the main cast's relationships with each other that stand-out. In fact in the middle of season two, Garazeb forms a surprising bond with an imperial operative on a far-off moon. From that episode on, that bond boomed in popularity and became the LGBTQA+ ship to come the closest to being canon in mainstream ‘Star Wars’ media. Why does it deserve to rank among the other great Star Wars couples? It is one of the most underrated yet sincerest portrayals of romance in any ‘Star Wars’ media because of the way it successfully captures the enemies to lovers trope in a healthy manner.
Jaime BurbattPublished 2 years ago in Beat