New music manuscript found – attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart written around 1760 between 10 and 13 years old
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New Mozart Just Dropped: Lost Manuscript Reveals Centuries-Old Music
The young Mozart composed the piece around 1760 and was played for the first time at the Leipzig Opera over the weekend.
A hitherto-unknown piece of music by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently discovered by researchers the Leipzig Municipal Libraries. The sheet music
Edinburgh: first three brothers to row any ocean with Atlantic record set to make history again to cross Pacific non-stop and un-supported in boat they designed themselves to raise money for clean water
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Edinburgh brothers look to make history with Pacific Ocean row
A trio of brothers from Edinburgh are set to take on their biggest challenge yet by attempting to become the first team to row the entire Pacific Ocean non-stop and unsupported.
The MacLean brothers are hoping to raise £1million as well as breaking two world records when they set off early
World largest music record labels sue GenAI startups for copyright infringement on a “massive scale”
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Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms
Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Records have sued AI music-synthesis companies Udio and Suno for allegedly committing mass copyright infringement by using recordings owned by the labels to train music-generating AI models, reports Reuters. Udio and Suno can generate
The simpler life: 67% of poll respondents including 77% of Americans age 35-54 would like to go back to life before internet and smartphones
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Gen Xers and older millennials really just want to go back in time to before the internet existed
According to a new survey, Americans are yearning for an era before constant connectivity. Can we blame them?
According to a new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company, most Americans would prefer to live in a simpler
“A tear may be so near…life is still worthwhile, if you just smile”: Tony Bennett (1926-2023), World War II veteran and music legend spanning 7 decades
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Tony Bennett, legendary singer and master of the American songbook, dies at 96 “I’ve never worked a day in my life,” Tony Bennett told USA TODAY in 2011, “because I love what I do.” The great singer cited that bit of Confucian wisdom often. In a career spanning more than six decades, Bennett conveyed that joy and
Travelers can spend a night in the Parisian opera house that inspired the Phantom of the Opera, novel from real events and legends surrounding Palais Garnier
Phantom of the Opera fans can now spend the night inside the opulent Parisian opera house that inspired the beloved musical and novel.
Airbnb and the Opéra National de Paris have teamed up to transform one of the Palais Garnier’s chambers, the Box of Honor, into a lavish bedroom. While the box is typically reserved for visiting dignitaries, two lucky
On parade: WWii veterans in their 90s; Belarus swaggers, honor guards sing popular song “Katyusha”
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Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. Its capital and most populous city is Minsk. Over 40% of its 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) is forested. Its major economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing.
Minsk is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located