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Eric Von Schmidt (May 28, 1931 - February 2, 2007) was an American singer-songwriter associated with the folk/blues revival of the 1960s and a key part of the East Coast folk music scene included Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and others. Von Schmidt is probably best known for not being the author of the song Baby, Let Me Follow You Down, which was for years a staple of Dylan's musical catalogue. Dylan's label, Columbia Records, credited Von Schmidt as the composer of the piece. Although he penned a book of the same name, Von Schmidt denied ([3]) the assertion made by...

Harald Lesch (born July 20th 1960 in Gießen) is a German physicist, astronomer, philosopher, writer, TV host and professor of physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Lesch is famous for his appearances on TV, especially the series "alpha-Centauri", "Lesch & Co", "Denker des Abendlandes" (German for 'Thinkers of the occident') and "Alpha bis Omega" (German for 'From Alpha to Omega'), all hosted by him. Apart from that, he hosted several other, shorter serial programs. His typical routine consists only of a 15-minute-lecture or a talk with one dialogue partner at most. In this manner, Harald Lesch attempts to communicate complex...

Since his humble musical beginnings in rural New Hampshire, Nashville-based pop singer and recent graduate from Northeastern University’s renowned Music Industry program, Ryan Schmidt has opened for critically acclaimed artists Matt Nathanson and LIGHTS, sang a duet with Juliana Hatfield, and has been named the Critic’s Choice at the Starbucks Music Makers Competition. These achievements have been fueled by a refreshingly back-to-basics recipe of undeniable talent, unrelenting innovation and boundless desire, along with a healthy portion of good ole fashioned drive. This past year, he performed at the Outlaw Roadshow private CMJ showcase, appeared in GQ’s annual Men Of The...

Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – October 29, 1675), the "Orpheus of Zittau," was a German composer and organist, of Bohemian birth, of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of sacred music in Germany in the middle 17th century. Hammerschmidt wrote motets, concertos and arias, and almost all of his output is sacred vocal music in the concertato style. According to Manfred Bukofzer (1947), he "watered down the achievements of Schütz for the multitude." Many of his compositions are in the form of the chorale monody, an adaptation of the...