Thursday, June 7, 2012

Did you know...

CDs (compact discs) have a capacity to store 74 minutes of audio.  This non-round number of minutes was suggested by Sony's vice-president, Norio Ohga, so that German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (recorded in 1951) would fit on a single disc.

Beethoven yields to no technological format!

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