Christopher D Shea, Handel and Hendrix Museum Sets Opening Date. New York Times, Oct 29, 2015
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/handel-museum-opens-a-hendrix-half/
("In the mid-18th century, George Frideric Handel wrote his epic oratorio 'Messiah' in a Georgian town house here [London]. Around 230 years later, Jimi Hendrix moved in next door. Now, a revamped museum dedicated to both musical pioneers is set to open Feb 10 on Brook Street in the Mayfair district, in the adjacent apartments where they lived")
Note:
(a) This blog was published.
(b) George Frideric Handel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
(1685 – 1759; born in present-day Germany; lived in London 1712 (age 27) until his death at 74; became a naturalized British subject in 1727 ; composed English-language Messiah in 1741)
That is his English name. His birth name is German: Georg Friedrich Händel.
(c) Jimi Hendrix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix
(born Johnny Allen Hendrix; born in Seattle in 1942 and died in London in 1970 at 27; Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists; one of his then girlfriend Monika Dannemann [1945 – 1996; German; the last person who saw him alive] revealed that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage)
(d) Kathy Etchingham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Etchingham
(1969- ; English) |