How a Composer Made Music From Famous Hair Recovered From a Nazi Extermination Camp [Video]
This is the bizarre tale of how a Scottish composer recovered some locks of Beethoven's hair from a garment that survived the holocaust, and then used the hair as the basis for a new work of music. Brilliant? Creepy? Both. More »
source: gizmodo.com
15 Feb 2012
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