Jane Joseph (1894–1929) was an English composer, arranger and teacher
of music, whose potential was noticed by the composer Gustav Holst when
he taught her composition at St Paul's Girls' School. She acted as his
amanuensis from 1914, when he was composing The Planets, and thereafter
assisted him with transcriptions, arrangements and translations, and
with the organisation of music festivals. Many of her works were
composed for performance at these festivals, but most were not published
and have been lost. Two early short orchestral pieces were published and
critically praised, and two of her choral works were admired in her day
but have rarely been performed since. Her carol "A Little Childe There
is Ibore" was thought by Holst to be among the best of its kind. A
respected teacher of music, one of her pupils was Holst's daughter
Imogen. Joseph was also an active member of the Society of Women
Musicians. Her early, unexpected death was judged by her contemporaries
as a considerable loss to English music. As of 2014 there are no
commercial recordings of her music, but there have been occasional
broadcast performances.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Joseph>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1279 BC:
Ramesses II (statue pictured) became Pharaoh of Egypt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II>
1223:
Mongol invasions: Mongol forces defeated a combined army of
Kiev, Galich, and the Cumans at the Kalchik River in present-day
Ukraine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Kalka_River>
1862:
American Civil War: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston
and G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan at the
Battle of Seven Pines outside Richmond, Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Seven_Pines>
1941:
The United Kingdom completed its re-occupation of Iraq,
returning 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War>
2010:
During an attempt to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza
Strip, the Israeli Navy engaged in armed conflict with the crew of the
MV Mavi Marmara, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Mavi_Marmara>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
omnishambles:
(UK, chiefly politics) A situation that is bad or mismanaged in every
way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/omnishambles>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 All this time and at all times wait the words of true
poems, The words of true poems do not merely please, The true poets are
not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty; The greatness
of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers, The
words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
--Song of the Answerer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass#Song_of_the_Answerer_.281855.3B_1856.3B_1881.29>