Music of the Week
"In the beginning" & "Let there be light"
by Mike Oldfield
We have an ususual musical choice this week, composed by Mike Oldfield, whose groundbreaking debut album, "Tubular Bells", launched a long and varied career in contemporary music including progressive rock, world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new age music. The words from Genesis were recorded on the 1968 Apollo 8 space mission, the first crewed spacecraft to reach (but not land on) the Moon.
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