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Did you know that Holst’s “Mars, Bringer of War” was heavy enough to justify imitation by Metallica in “Am I Evil?”?

Did you know that Prokofiev’s fabulous dedication to “Romeo and Juliet’ titled “Montagues, and Capulets”, is the most popular song for advertising perfume on TV?

Did you know that “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Grieg, was actually about his love life with a King’s daughter, after he “loved her and left her”?

Did you know that the man who inspired Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” died suddenly by Mussorgsky’s side while walking through the park?

Did you know that the “Fanfare for the Common Man” by Copland was embraced by the Rolling Stones, and played at the Olympics and at Nixon’s inauguration?

Did you know that Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5 in C Minor’s” first four famous notes rhythmically spells out a “V” (as in victory) in Morse Code?

Did you know that Berlioz’s obsession for an Irish Actress Harriet Smithson fueled the “Symphonic Fantastique”, subtitled “Episode in the Life of an Artist”? In the forth movement, “March to the Scaffold”, an opium induced dream finds our hero condemned
to die for murdering his lover. Berlioz paints the scene graphically with a terse orchestral chord depicting the guillotine blade, plucked strings the decapitated head plopping into a basket.

Did you know that the famous composer Lieutenant Kije’ really didn’t exist? His real name was created by a slip of pen on a military document.

Did you know that Orff’s “O fortuna” is about a goddess who controls men’s lives and was later recorded and appeared on the sound track to Oliver Stone’s controversial film “The Doors”?