Vivaldi was a great composer of concertos and a great violin player. Six choirboys sang at his funeral including the nine year old soon to be great composer Josef Hayden.
(The Great Courses – The Concerto)
Vivaldi was a great composer of concertos and a great violin player. Six choirboys sang at his funeral including the nine year old soon to be great composer Josef Hayden.
(The Great Courses – The Concerto)
The battle of the Coral Sea in WWII was the first battle at sea in which surface ships never exchanged a shot.
(Book – The Second World War Volume 4 – Winston S. Churchill)
The ‘orchestra’ originally meant the area where the musicians sat while playing for an opera. Only later did its meaning change to be the actual members playing the music.
(The Great Courses – The Concerto)
In the 1650’s the first brothel opened in Boston.
(The Great Courses – The History of the United States)
In the ancient world it took 10,000 tropical sea snails to make one gram of royal purple dye.
(Magazine – Smithsonian September 2013)