David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter.  His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct.  Four of his most famous novels–Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)–were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality and use of explicit language.  Lawrence's opinions and artistic preferences earned him a controversial reputation; he endured contemporary persecution and public misrepresentation of his creative work throughout his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile that he described as a "savage enough pilgrimage".  At the time of his death, he had been variously scorned as tasteless, avant-garde, and a pornographer who had only garnered success for erotica; however, English novelist and critic E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence    

The Palace of Truth is a three-act blank verse "Fairy Comedy" by W. S. Gilbert first produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 19 November 1870, adapted in significant part from Madame de Genlis's fairy story, Le Palais de Vérite.  The play ran for approximately 140 performances and then toured the British provinces and enjoyed various revivals even well into the 20th century. There was also a New York production in 1910.   After more than a century of inquiry, researchers in 2012 concluded that the three genera of Lemurs were named after characters in The Palace of Truth in 1870 by British zoologist John Edward Gray.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palace_of_Truth    

yelm

The noun is derived from Middle English yelm, from Old English ġielm (“bunch or handful (of plant stems)”), from Proto-West Germanic *galmi (“bundle or handful of plants”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish; green, yellow”) or *gʰel- (“to cut”).  The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

yelm (plural yelms)  (UK, dialectal) A bundle of straw laid out straight, chiefly to be used for thatching; a helm. quotations ▼ Translations

bundle of straw laid out straight for thatching — see thatch

Verb

yelm (third-person singular simple present yelms, present participle yelming, simple past and past participle yelmed) (UK, dialectal)

(transitive) To choose and lay out (straw) straight to be used for animal fodder or thatching; to helm. quotations ▼

(intransitive) To choose and lay out straw straight to be used for animal fodder or thatching; to helm.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yelm#English    

March 13, 2025  Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes:  to signify approval with applause, for instance, or to keep time to music.  Acousticians often use a hand clap as a cheap substitute for pricey equipment to make acoustic measurements in architecture. While the basic physical mechanism is simple, the underlying physical mechanisms are less well-understood.  A new paper published in the journal Physical Review Research provides experimental support for the hypothesis that hand clapping essentially acts like a Helmholtz resonator—akin to the hum generated by blowing across the top of a bottle, or the hiss one hears when holding a conch shell to one's ear.  In 2020, engineers Nikolaos Papadakis and Georgios Stavroulakis, both at the Technical University of Crete, recruited 24 students to clap their hands once in different venues, varying their hand configurations in 11 different ways—changing the angle of the hands with respect to one another, for instance, or changing how many fingers of one hand overlapped with the fingers or palms of the other.  https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/how-ones-hand-configuration-affects-the-sound-of-clapping/    

Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic will give the first performance of an early work of Maurice Ravel’s on 13th March, 2025 in celebration of the composer’s 150th anniversary.  Prélude et danse de Sémiramis, composed in 1902, is the opening to a partially lost cantata from Ravel’s student days.  The autograph manuscript of the opening prelude has been at the Bibliothèque nationale de France since 2000, but has not received an orchestral performance.  Composed at the age of 27, the same year as Ravel’s celebrated String Quartet in F, Sémiramis was among several choral and orchestral works Ravel wrote in pursuit of the Prix de Rome, which the composer never won despite entering four times.  His elimination in 1905, for allegedly nepotistic reasons, caused a scandal.  This new performing score was prepared by the Ravel Edition, and other documents relating to Ravel will be exhibited at David Geffen Hall from 3rd March to 20th May, 2025 including autograph manuscripts on loan from the Morgan Library & Museum.  Dudamel and the NY Philharmonic will perform Prélude et danse from 13th–16th March, together with Yuja Wang performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.  Dudamel will also conduct Varèse’s Amériques and Gershwin’s An American in Paris.  https://bachtrack.com/news-ravel-world-premiere-new-york-philharmonic-dudamel-february-2025    

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