#career

Noah Harrison

Dad and I had a real disagreement in 2013 about whether I'd eventually take over the store, and I left home that year to try things on my own -- finished my diploma through night classes and started picking up construction labor jobs around the county not long after. Turned out I had a knack for it, and within a couple years I was learning framing and finish carpentry from a crew foreman who took me under his wing. This photo's from 2014, a few weeks after a flood wrecked the store's inventory -- Mom called and asked me to come help with the cleanup, and I did. Dad and I were still a little stiff with each other that week, but working side by side on something that mattered to both of us was the start of things easing up between us.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, and pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, he was mentored during the Classical period, and his musical style was a key driver of the transition to Romantic music, and the expansion of instrumental forms such as the symphony, the piano sonata and the string quartet. His compositions have attracted extraordinary casual and scholarly interest, and remain among the most performed in the world.