Posts Tagged ‘Westminster Abbey’
“The real art of conducting consists in transitions”*…
More in Eugene Chan‘s wonderful series Don’t Shoot the Piano Player. [TotH to friend SS.]
* Gustav Mahler
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As we marvel at music, we might send well-composed birthday greetings to Henry Lawes; he was born on this date in 1596. The leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century (and brother of composer William Lawes), Henry worked both for Charles I and (roundhead) John Milton (for whom he composed Arcades and arranged for Milton to write the masque Comus). At the Restoration Lawes was reinstated in his old positions in the King’s Musick; he was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey after his death in 1662.
Meetings with Remarkable Men…
The Edgerton Digital Collections project celebrates the spirit of a great pioneer, Harold “Doc” Edgerton, inventor, entrepreneur, explorer and beloved MIT professor– a site for all who share Doc Edgerton’s philosophy of “Work hard. Tell everyone everything you know. Close a deal with a handshake. Have fun!”
The Edgerton Digital Collections are worth a visit for a variety of reasons; Doc Edgerton’s life was remarkable; his work, extraordinarily impactful– and his story, full of resonant lessons. But if for no other reason, readers should click through to see the collection of photographs taken with the strobe technology that Edgerton pioneered; e.g.,
As we marvel at motion stopped, we might curtsy in the general direction of London, as it was on this date in 1559 that, two months after the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I of England, Elizabeth Tudor, the 25-year-old daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was crowned Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey in London. The Virgin Queen presided over the accession of England to primacy as a global power, ruling until her death in 1603. (As readers may recall, while this is the anniversary of Elizabeth’s coronation, she actually acceded to power two months earlier, on Mary’s death.)
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