Random Fun Stuff!
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BHMS Staff and the instrument they play!!
Podcasts (educational, of course!)
Did you know that Andy Griffith’s First Full-Time Job was as a High School Band Director? He plays the Trombone.
Students who graduate from college with a Music Degree have the highest national acceptance rate into medical school.
The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.
A piano covers the full spectrum of all instruments, from below the lowest note of the double bassoon to above the top note of the piccolo.
The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.
In 1952, John Cage composed and presented ' 4'33" ', a composition consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
British composer Mike Batt was sued by the estate of John Cage for copyright infringement, after his composition "One Minute of Silence" was claimed to have been stolen from Cage's piece entitled 4'33". Although a plausible defense was offered, arguing that it was impossible to prove which one minute of silence was infringed upon, Batt ended up settling out of court, reportedly with a six-figure settlement.
The song "Happy Birthday To You" is not a public-domain composition. The publishing rights are owned by a subsidiary of Warner Communications, and a performance fee must be paid every time it is used for commercial purposes.
Miles Davis was the first jazz artist ever to be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The most-aired video in the history of MTV is Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer".
Beethoven's composition "Fur Elise" is now believed by scholars to be actually titled "Fur Therese". Beethoven was dating a woman named Therese at the time he wrote the piece, and historians have blamed the composers' extremely poor penmanship for this misnomer.
The biggest selling album in history is Michael Jackson's "Thriller", with over 100 million units sold world-wide.
According to the RIAA, Garth Brooks is the second-biggest-selling solo artist in american history, only surpassed by Elvis Presley.
The oldest artist to hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 is Louis Armstrong in 1964 with "Hello, Dolly!" at the age of 62. The oldest woman with a #1 is Cher with "Believe" in 1999 at the age of 53.
The brass family of instruments include the trumpet, trombone, tuba, cornet, flügelhorn, French horn, saxhorn, and sousaphone. While they are usually made of brass today, in the past they were made of wood, horn, and glass.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
