<HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Greg Torres"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.04 [en] (Win95; I) [Netscape]"> </HEAD> <BODY> ACTUAL QUOTES FROM GRADE SCHOOL ESSAYS ON CLASSICAL MUSIC Handel was half-German, half-Italian, and half-English. He was rather large. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died from this. Aaron Copland is one of our most famous contemporary composers. It is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead. Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel. Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and the McCoys. A virtuoso is a musician with a real high morals. </BODY> </HTML>