Launchpad: Live From Antiquity

Live from Antiquity!

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1) Read and discuss Antigone by Sophocles. Note about this edition: the arrows at the top-right corner of the text allow you to progress page by page through the work. The red mark on a blue bar along the top of the work shows how far you have progressed through the text.

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven born

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French composer Hector Berlioz born

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Johannes Brahms, German composer, is born

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Ferdinand “Jellyroll” Morton, jazz musician, born

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Ken Burns Jazz: Jellyroll Morton

Jazz musician Louis Armstrong is born

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First commercial recording of country music in Bristol, Tennessee

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Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer, is born

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Duke Ellington born

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Ella Fitzgerald, "first lady of song," born

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