Beethoven's barnet fused into diamond
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10 strands of hair become $1m charity gem A synthetic diamond company has transformed 10 strands of Beethoven's hair into a "Fancy Blue" 0.56 carat gem expected to sell for up to $1m on eBay.â¦
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Amelie Mauresmo beat Kim Clijsters 6-4 7-6 in the Diamond Games final on Sunday, becoming the first player to win the event's diamond-studded racket estimated to be worth one million euros (674,000 pounds).
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The pianist has become famous for high invention at low volume, which was difficult to showcase against a drummer from a much busier and louder aesthetic universe.
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Schumannâs vibrant Piano Quintet was given a vigorous performance on Monday at Weill Recital Hall by the Modigliani String Quartet and the pianist Jean-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Neuburger.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimardâs piano recital on Monday at Zankel Hall was a carefully planned, illuminating program that included the surprise premiere of âCatÃ©naires,â a new work by Elliott Carter.
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When Edward Dusinberre read Philip Rothâs novel âEverymanâ he was struck by what he perceived as its richly musical qualities.
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Tycho:  It took three separate discs and two consoles to finally work out the Goddamn kinks, but we were able to play almost the entire Eternal Sonata demo.  Almost!  I wasn't aware people were still boiling discs, presumably in black iron cauldrons where carrots bob, but I don't want to live a life where boiling discs is normal.
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Andras Schiff is showing in his Carnegie Hall traversal of the sonatas is that a handful of relatively small but decisive steps lead from the Haydnesque playfulness of Beethovenâs earliest works to the grand proclamations of the mature ones.
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Diamonds are forever. And for restitution, too. Martin Frankel, the Greenwich, Conn., financier who swindled millions from insurance companies, converted his ill-gotten gains into diamonds before fleeing the country in 1999.
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Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did &#151; inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.
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A long-lost adagio by Beethoven will be performed for the first time next month.
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After almost a decade, the famed music composer is back doing what he does best -- making beautiful music.
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BBC Radio 3 gives over a whole week of programming to make way for the entire works of Beethoven next year.
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MURFREESBORO, Ark. - A Texas couple found a 6.35-carat diamond Saturday at the Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park. The diamond was the eighth largest found at the site since it became a state park in 1972.
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The pianist Steven Lubin once gambled correctly that if he built one, they would come.
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The trio of Paul Motian, Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell, who play the Village Vanguard through Sunday, have discovered a mature brilliance in their 20 years together.
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The seemingly inexhaustible supply of Beethoven performances, and the seemingly inexhaustible public demand for them.