“Tharon Musser, who said she ‘painted with light’ and proved it with her lighting designs for more than 150 Broadway shows — including ‘Follies,’ ‘A Chorus Line’ and ‘Dreamgirls,’ all of which won her Tonys in the 1970s and ’80s — died Sunday at her home in Newtown, Conn.”
Tag: 04.21.09
UN’s World Digital Library Is Up And Running
“A globe-spanning U.N. digital library seeking to display and explain the wealth of all human cultures has gone into operation on the Internet, serving up mankind’s accumulated knowledge in seven languages for students around the world. … The site (www.wdl.org) has put up the Japanese work that is considered the first novel in history, for instance, along with the Aztecs’ first mention of the Christ child in the New World and the works of ancient Arab scholars piercing the mysteries of algebra….”