By David Fleshler
Florence Price’s Piano Quintet and selections from her String Quartet No. 2 were performed by members of the New World Symphony.
A pillar of the musical establishment shared the New World Symphony’s program Saturday with the first African-American woman to have a work performed by a major orchestra.
Johannes Brahms needs no introduction, although the program drew from youthful works that showed he was pretty serious even then. The other composer was Florence Price, who grew up in segregated Little Rock, Arkansas, earned two degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and produced songs, piano works, concertos and symphonies.
The enduring puzzle: Where did the asteroid or comet originate, and how did it come to strike Earth? Now, a pair of researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian believe they have the answer. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
Posted on Feb 15, 2021 in Astronomy, Evolution, Science
“It must have been an amazing sight, but we don’t want to see that again,” said Harvard astrophysicist, Avi Loeb about the comet that created the the Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and runs 12 miles deep that forever changed Earth’s evolutionary history when it crashed 66 million years ago.
The Scene at Impact
The scene of the massive impact that brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of almost three-quarters of the plant and animal species living on Earth, has been described by mass-extinction authority, Peter Brannen in
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It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
The Chicxulub impactor, as it s known, left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and runs 12 miles deep. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of almost three-quarters of the plant and animal species living on Earth.
The enduring puzzle: Where did the asteroid or comet originate, and how did it come to strike Earth? Now, a pair of researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian believe they have the answer.