“For a young composer to feel the weight of that body, the finality, we know it affected him,” said celebrated cellist Lynn Harrell. He was describing the welter of feelings bearing down on 29-year-old Franz Schubert, one of six pallbearers carrying Beethoven’s coffin at his funeral in Vienna on March 29, 1827.
Of course, Harrell could [...]

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When Frances Hesselbein was approached by a neighbor to be a scout leader of a failing troop, she thought the idea was ridiculous. Not only had she never been a Girl Scout, she didn’t even have a daughter.
Busy assisting her husband in his business, Hesslebein agreed to help, and a six-week chore as a scout [...]

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