Nearly every show on Broadway has a softball team, and they play against each other across three divisions under the umbrella of the Broadway Show League. 2014's champions were Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, and Matilda.
Bernadette Peters is no amateur singer. She's an acclaimed Broadway performer, who has been nominated for seven Tony Awards (winning two), and nine Drama Desk Awards (winning three).
New York City tenant laws allow musicians to practice their chosen instrument from the morning until 10 pm in the evening. Sometimes the musician's union is called to help their members enforce their right to practice at home.
Anton Coppola is a famous American opera conductor, and composer. He has conducted at the New York City Opera, Radio City Music hall, six Broadway musicals, and two movies. He's the uncle of Francis Ford Coppola, and the great-uncle of Jason Schwartzman.
Beethoven's 5th Symphony opens with the famous four-note motif, which has been often described as "fate knocking on the door". Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny, however, claimed that "the pattern of notes had come to him from a yellow-hammer's (bird) song, heard as he walked in the Prater park in Vienna."