Thursday May 7th

Good Day,
Well it's day two of finals and it couldn't be going more slowly. However, with a paper, a take home exam and two finals out of the way I'm presented with a glorious break until my finals schedule continues on Tuesday. Also, its safe to say that I passed my sailing exam with flying colors, successfully plotting my location in Buzzards Bay and easily identifying the difference between a ketch and a yawl. And now that I have recently written and finished a 16 page take home exam about US Foreign Policy of the last 60 years and the Pakistani Crisis, I'm free to get back to blogging. But first, as you may have noticed, our website has undergone some major networking advances in the last day. Not only can you follow the Daily Routine on Twitter, you can also become a fan on Facebook. Additionally, you can email us at thedailyroutineonline@gmail.com with your positive feedback. Negative feedback can be directed to tferguson@andover.edu or you can take your anger out on the next Jehovah's Witness that comes to your door. Main point: you can't escape the Daily Routine so just read it and make me famous okay? But enough with the self-furthering, shameless advertising of how great this blog is. Let's move on to our Daily Topic: CLASSICAL MUSIC

Brahms Tchaikovsky

So as I'm sure you already knew, today, May 7th, is the birthday of two of the greatest composers of all time: Johannes Brahms and Peter Tchaikovsky. Besides combining for a venerable amount of facial hair, these two men are potentially the two most widely know classical composers of all time. Tchaikovsky is known best for Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and the 1812 overture while Brahms is famous for his piano and choral compositions. Additionally, Brahms (thanks to Thomas Edison) is one of the earliest recording artists of all time, recording a piano piece in 1889. This hit Hungarian dance leaped to the top of the charts and recieved extensive radio play time (easy when you're the only song ever recorded.) But what most classical afficionados of Classical music don't know is that Brahms and Tchaikovsy were bitter enemies. Born just seven years apart, these musical giants jockeyed for domination of the emerging music industry throughout their careers. To make matters worse, the two men each shared a scandalous companionship with wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck. When Tchaikovsky discovered this, he was infuriated. But in those days, there was only one way to settle a situation of dueling composers. Beard-off. Clearly, Brahms had the superior beard growing skill and handily defeated Tchaikovsky ( in both categories: length and style), who committed suicide at the age of 53. Such is the price of Classical Music Fame.
Farewell,
-ROF

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