Beethoven - May 7
Classical Learning
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Beethoven
ON THIS DATE
- 1824 - Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna.
- 1915 - German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast. killing 1,198 people.
- 1945 - Germany signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France.
- 1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is published by Geoffrey Dummer.
- 1992 - Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the Constitution, making the 27th Amendment law.
- 1711 - Scottish economist and philosopher David Hume
- 1812 - English poet Robert Browning
- 1833 - German composer Johannes Brahms
- 1840 - Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1845 - Nurse and activist Mary Eliza Mahoney
- 1901 - Actor Gary Cooper
- 1954 - Director Amy Heckerling
POEM OF THE DAY
James Reiss -On Learning China Has Lifted Its Ban on Beethoven
ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
The First Twenty - 20 Years of Asian American Playwriting
THEME: Beethoven
John Hall Wheelock - Beethoven
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS Kids - Peg + Cat - The Dinosaur Problem/The Beethoven Problem (25:33) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Beethoven's Emperor Concerto (10:50) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - The Genius of Beethoven (9:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Profile: Euntaek Kim, Piano, and Performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy (27:36) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - The Genius of Beethoven (9:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Discover Beethoven's 5th - (56:45) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Ode to Joy - Beethoven's 9th - (1:26:46) - VIEW
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