Havergal Brian (1876-1972)

This morning I was a full twenty-eight minutes late to work, due to the closing of a portion of I-465 that I normally take to work. Apparently there was a major overnight accident involving several semis. Now the highway is covered in fritos, mayonnaise and Gatorade. Yikes!

I eventually found myself crawling at a snail’s pace along Girls School Road. This afforded me the opportunity to listen to 88.7’s weekday morning program “Symphonic Sunrise”. Sometime after 8:00 there was a little blurb about a composer who had apparently written the “largest symphony ever”