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☆ The most expensive fashion pieces Taylor Swift has worn this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

In January, Taylor Swift wore more than $108,000 worth of diamond earrings on the Golden Globes red carpet. Taylor Swift wears De Beers diamonds at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty ImagesSwift wore three earrings on each ear, including a $68,500 pair of De Beers Arpeggia three-line danglers inspired by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata." She also sported a $34,900 pair of the brand's Arpeggia one-line earrings, a $2,000 cuff in the style Dewdrop, and one stud in a classic round shape that ranges in price, starting at $3,350. Together, her diamond earrings cost at least $108,750.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Bauer, Griffin, Swift, De Beers, Beethoven's Organizations: Globes

☆ Forget Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny — TikTokers are now dancing to royalty-free music
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

If you open TikTok today, you might well be greeted with creators dancing to royalty-free music instead of your favorite tunes from artists like Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny. The move has resulted in a whole archive of "muted" TikTok videos, and even the UMG artists themselves aren't safe. Some TikTok creators are already responding to UMG's move by filming themselves dancing to songs in the public domain. I'm glad they are far in the past because I look awkward mouthing and dancing to no music," Romano said. "I would say 75% of my videos would contain UMG music," Romano said.

Persons: Taylor Swift, That's, Justin Bieber, Bieber, Kevin MacLeod, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, Sophia Romano, Romano, UMG, Brian Gabriel, Gabriel, Nikalas Anderson, Anderson, Für Elise, Wendy Ly, Swift's Organizations: Universal Music Group, UMG, Globes, BI Locations: NYC, Los Angeles, Japan

NEW YORK (AP) — Franz Welser-Möst is back on the Cleveland Orchestra's podium, concentrating again on music instead of his health. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesWelser-Möst had surgery Sept. 1 to remove a cancerous tumor from his bladder and came back to Cleveland to conduct the orchestra's season opener on Sept. 28. Both are very well now, so there’s every reason to be optimistic.”Welser-Möst has been Cleveland's music director since 2002-03 and has appointed 69 musicians, including 52 of the current 105 members. And in those days, of course, I was like: How on earth is he doing that?”Welser-Möst first conducted the Cleveland Orchestra in 1993 and became music director for the 2002-03 season. On the afternoon of his return concert on Jan. 11, he announced he will retire as music director at the end of 2026-27, his 25th season.

Persons: — Franz Welser, “, George Szell, ”, Verdi's, Möst, André Gremillet, Franz Leopold Maria Möst, Baron Andreas von Bennigsen, Herbert von Karajan, Karajan, Albert Moser, Vienna’s, “ I’d, wasn't, “ I’m, Clive Gillinson, he's, Beethoven's, Strauss, “ I’ve, Riccardo Muti, Gustavo Dudamel Organizations: Cleveland, Cleveland's Severance Music Center, Carnegie Hall, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival, Cleveland Orchestra’s, Berlin Philharmonic’s, Karajan, Cleveland Orchestra, Carnegie, ” Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, “ Locations: Austrian, Austria, New York, Naples, West Palm Beach , Florida, Cleveland, Vienna, Linz, Welser, Liechtenstein, Salzburg, Berlin, York, Weimar Republic, Weimar, Zurich, U.S

☆ A Lego Crime, a YouTube Rivalry, and the End of a Star Wars Friendship
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

Those who are into Lego Star Wars are among the most popular. It was at an informal contest where Louis met Victor, a fellow Lego Star Wars fanatic. Soon they ranked among the most popular Lego Star Wars YouTubers in France, known for the size and scope of their MOCs. The two friends no longer fit with that satisfying click that comes from snapping together two Lego bricks. Though it must have taken a truck to haul away all of Louis' Lego, no neighbor reported seeing anything suspicious.

☆ Beethoven's hair has been a big ticket item for years, auctioned for thousands — turns out it didn't all belong to him
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It also revealed some locks considered to Beethoven's that sold for thousands, are not actually his. It was last sold for $7,300 in 1994 and has been displayed for decades as authentic Beethoven hair. -- The Stumpff lock sold for about $14,700 in 2016, and the researchers determined it most likely was authentic. In 2000, a lot that combined Beethoven's hair and hair from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sold for more than $55,700. The book, "Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and A Scientific Mystery Solved," was published in 2001 and later turned into a documentary.

☆ Locks of hair compose a symphony of genetic information on Beethoven
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Researchers said on Wednesday his genome showed the German composer was both genetically predisposed to liver disease and had hepatitis B virus infection. The new findings suggest there were multiple factors behind his liver disease including genetics, viral infection and alcohol consumption. "Prior to this study, alcohol was the only definitely known risk factor for Beethoven's liver disease." Beethoven experienced progressive hearing loss starting at age 29 and by 44 his hearing loss was complete, though he continued to compose masterpieces. There was no evidence found for conditions hypothesized by some experts such as otosclerosis or Paget's disease, Begg said.

☆ The internet's new favorite video game is like 'Guitar Hero' but with trombones
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York (CNN Business) If you liked "Guitar Hero" but wished it had more brass instruments, you're in luck. A new rhythm game called "Trombone Champ" has struck a chord with users online, bringing the kind of much-needed levity to the internet that only a trombone can. Numerous videos have been shared on social media in recent days of avatars blasting their trombones with unbridled joy. "Trombone Champ," from developer Holy Wow Studios, lets players "honk, blow, & toot" their virtual trombones to more than 20 songs, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the US national anthem. "I made a quick prototype, which people online thought was funny, and thus began work on a full game," Dan Vecchitto, game designer and developer behind Holy Wow, told CNN Business.

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