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POPSTrue Grit November 27, 1931: Concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein impresses a Vienna audience with his performance of Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. The pianist refused to give up his career after losing his right arm in World War I. 1981: John Kennedy Toole is posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for A Confederacy of Dunces. His gritty mom, Thelma Ducoing Toole, had enlisted the initially skeptical Walker Percy to help get the book published after Toole’s suicide. 1993: Andrew Wiles announces that after many years of work he has solved the seemingly unsolvable Fermat’s Last Theorem. Mathematicians discover a small error, but Wiles resolves it within another year. October 2008: After a decade spent lobbying, high school dropout Alvin Sykes sees the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act " named for the black teenager brutally murdered in 1955 for reportedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi " signed into law, largely because of his relentless efforts.
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POPSPhilip glass violin Concerto 3rd movement sadly underrated master piece by the low key Mr Glass, bridging the worlds of the classical tradition and the avant garde the violin concerto with its constantly shifting minor modes entice the list...
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POPSMarilyn Manson no Coliseu do Porto Dia 17 de Junho, o Coliseu do Porto vai receber um concerto onde vamos ouvir muitos temas novos, mas onde não vão ficar de fora os grandes temas, como “The Beautiful People”, “Sweet Dreams” ou “Rock is Dead”.
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POPSJuilliard Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 11 - Mvt. 1 C. Kopprasch Sixty Selected Studies for French Horn, Book 2, No. 45 Jacques Francois Gallay 335 Selected Studies for French Horn, No. 17 Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3, op. 90 - Mvt. 3 Solo Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks - Opening Solo Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, op. 47 - Mvt. 1 Low Horn Tutti
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POPSIo c'ero... 21 giugno 1985, allo stadio San Siro di Milano si esibisce, per la prima volta in Italia, il rocker americano Bruce Springsteen: io c'ero e lo ricorderò per tutta la vita. Grande Boss.
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