QUOTE OF THE DAY: MAY 9, 2016 - GUSTAV HOLST & THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY

Today’s Quote of the Day comes to us from 20th century English composer Gustav Holst (of “The Planets” fame), and is in honor of today’s celestial spectacle of the planet Mercury making it’s visible-from-earth transit across the sun:

“Music, being identical with heaven,
isn’t a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones.
It’s a condition of eternity."

-Gustav Holst 

Discover more about today's celestial event (and more about the heavens):

NASA’s “live” feed: (at Ustream)
 
Still images from the transit (at NASA) 

Enjoy below Holst’s Mercury: the Winged Messenger, the third installment in the composer’s epic Planets Suite:


Rose.

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