In many ways, Beethoven, the venerable father figure of classical music, is the most revolutionary and disturbing of them all.
SUNDAY'S PUZZLE — The first theme entry I solved in Alex Vratsanos's and Jeff Chen's "Matching Wits" puzzle was the venerable father of modern blues MUDDY WATERS, so as a nod to him, today's blog post will be written in the rhythm of a blues riff.
It begins with a statement of intent: "Most venerable fathers, I have read in the records of the Arabians that Abdul the Saracen, on being asked what thing on, so to speak, the world's stage he viewed as most worthy of wonder, answered that he viewed nothing more wonderful than man".
The venerable Peter Snow (father of historian Dan Snow and then a reporter on Newsnight), was accused by a Tory MP of an "almost treasonable" act in noting the difficulty of corroborating British casualty figures.
But no club since the venerable My Father's Place in the early 1970's and the new-wave Malibu in the late 70's and early 80's has consistently booked national up-and-coming music.
Throughout a turbulent meeting in the cell of the venerable monk, Father Zosima, the driven, atheistic intellectual Ivan Karamazov has his heterodox opinions coaxed out of him.
A Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter: the First Instance that Entitled Him to the Venerable Appellation of Father Thou's welcome, wean!
The venerable Robert Mondavi, founding father of the modern American wine industry, still energetic as he nears 90, was on hand, along with Francis Ford Coppola, the film director and winemaker, resplendent in shorts and Hawaiian shirt, and the soft-spoken Thomas Keller of the French Laundry in the Napa Valley, which some consider to be the nation's best restaurant.
One would need to know nothing about Burns's life to feel convinced by the sweetness and bite of his epistle, "A Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter: the First Instance that Entitled Him to the Venerable Appellation of Father".
Since taking over his father's venerable stores last year, the designer Jasper Conran has been quietly revolutionizing the brand.
As he spoke, he stood near his father in the venerable dairy barn, where a throng of alpacas made the sound called "humming": a soothing ululation that sounds something like a happy kazoo.
