Audiobook Biography

Question: Where can I listen or download free audiobook: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Obama

Free downloadable audiobook or podcast with Brack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1996).
I would also appreciate indicating podcasts and websites with free downloadable audiobooks with biographies or psychohistories of [...]

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Johannes Brahms Symphonies

Question: Which are the Beethoven Influences in Johannes Brahms Symphonies?

I want instances where he wrote music that had a family relationship with Beethoven.

Answer: There’s no question that Beethoven colossus that he was had a profound effect on Brahms.
He reportedly wrote;
“I’ll never get a symphony written. You’ve no conception of what it’s like to hear a [...]

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Clinton Biography Book

Question: Can you recommend a good biography of Obama?

Now that he has been in office a year, I would suspect that there would be a good crop of biographies. I’m looking for an objective book, in the vein of “First in His Class” on Clinton and “First Son” on Bush. Objectivity is my [...]

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Julius Caesar Nero

Question: roman movies?

please tell me the names of some movies about anciet rome and/or its leaders besides the following:
Ben Hur (1959
Cleopatra (1963
Fall of the Roman Empire (The) (1964
Gladiator (2000
Spartacus (1960
Amazons and Gladiators
The Arena
Julius Caesar (1953)
Quo Vadis (1951)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Rome: Power & Glory [...]

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Johannes Brahms Symphony

Question: Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major has how many movements?

Answer: 3

December 28, 2009
Posted: Monday, December 28, 2009 4:45 am | Updated: 6:01 am, Mon Dec 28, 2009. If a defense attorney, a prosecutor and a judge were to walk into a music hall what would be the first thing they’d do?

Johannes Brahms [...]

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