Imogen Holst (12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator. In the 1940s she helped to establish Dartington Hall as a major centre of music education, and for the next 20 years was the joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she attended the Royal College of Music, but was unable for health reasons to follow her ambitions to be a pianist or a dancer, and became a full- time organiser for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. In the early 1950s she became Benjamin Britten's musical assistant. In later years she concentrated on the preservation of her father's musical legacy, and wrote several books on his life and works. The music she wrote is not widely known and has received little critical attention. She received numerous academic honours, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1975.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

627:

King Edwin of Northumbria was converted to Christianity by Bishop Paulinus of York, who had previously saved his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_of_Northumbria

1807:

The Froberg mutiny at Fort Ricasoli in Malta came to a close when the rebels blew up 600 barrels of gunpowder and escaped, although they were later caught. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froberg_mutiny

1861:

Confederate forces began firing at Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter

1910:

SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Zr%C3%ADnyi

1994:

Husband-and-wife law partners Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel posted the first massive commercial spam on Usenet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

horses for courses: (chiefly Britain, idiomatic) Different people are suited for different jobs or situations; what is fitting in one case may not be fitting in another. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/horses_for_courses

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The drafters of the Constitution had made one simple but far- reaching error. They'd assumed that the people selected by The People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they'd been. One could almost hear the "Oops!" emanating from all those old graves.   --Tom Clancy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy