Renaissance music and interstellar space travel - doesn't seem like they'd make good partners, but actually, they do! One of the pieces included on the Golden Record on the Voyager I spacecraft was "The Fairie Round," performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London. This work has many levels of meaning for me, since I was in a top-notch recorder ensemble as a youth, but also because I was a fan of Munrow, who championed and popularized early music but whose life and career were tragically cut short by his suicide at the age of 33. Here's a little legacy he left that is currently 20,082,628,623 kilometers from Earth and will reach the Oort Cloud in about 300 years. (If you want to know what else was included on the record, here's a list.)
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