Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00057)

(from) Lorraine Christensen

Many thanks to Govert Schuller, Lmhem111 and others for providing me
with much useful information on Cyril Scott.

For those interested, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (1980) has
included a favourable entry on Cyril Scott.  Some of the music he wrote
earned him the title of "English Debussy".  This is interesting to note
because from the biographical information that Lmhem111 pulled from the
British Music Society Debussy is quoted as saying in writing that
"Cyril Scott is one of the rarest artists of the present generation
......"

I would like to make a personal observation that  I see Theosophy as
having produced
talented, worthy people in all spheres of  labour.  For example, from
Ted Davy in his
article in Fohat - Winter 1997 issue:  "Early Canadian Theosophists and
Social Reform" I quote the following:

"The beginning of the long but ultimately successful struggle to obtain
votes for women was due in no small part to the initiative and
strenuous efforts of two early Canadian Theosophists, both charter
members of the Toronto Theosophical Society.  One, Dr. Emily Stowe
(1831-1903) was the first woman doctor to practice in Canada, but who
had to train for her profession in the U.S.A.; the other was her
daughter, Dr. Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857-1943), the first woman to
graduate from a Canadian medical college."


Lorraine Christensen
henningc@quenet.com