On this date 162 years ago, Miina Härma was born Miina Hermann at her father's schoolhouse in Kõrveküla, Governorate of Livonia, now Estonia. She became a composer, organist, choir director, and music teacher. She was Estonia's first professional female composer and organist. Härma first learned music at home, then aged 14–16, piano and music theory under with Karl August Hermann. Starting at 19, she studied organ under Louis Homilius and counterpoint and fugue under Julius Johannsen at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Later she worked in St. Petersburg as a piano teacher and as the director of the Estonian Education Society Choir, and she founded and directed the Estonian Children's Choir. She settled in Tartu in 1915, where she tought music Estonian Youth Education Society girls' gymnasium, now named for her, where a monument to her stands. She changed her surname to Härma in 1935. During her 60-year creative career, she wrote more than 200 choral songs, 10 cavatinas, and much more, including the canto, "Kalev and Linda," characters from Estonian mythology. She is remembered for taking organ music to the countryside, as virtually no skilled organists gave concerts outside of towns. She died in 1941 in Tartu. A monument erected on her grave at Raadi Cemetery in 1965 became an Estonian cultural heritage monument in 1997. The Bank of Estonia issued a commerotaive coin in 2014. Credit: https://w.wiki/HoBP Today I had a great ride in warm, sunny weather to the top of Bundy and Mount St. Mary's University. Not far, but I pushed a little harder to get back in time for a meeting. Traffic light score: Going up San Vicente, the red got me at 26th, but I fooled the Bundy light by tuning left a block early on Gretna Green. Crossing Sunset Boulevard, it was just a short wait for the green light. Lots of signals going down Barrington, but only a short wait at Sunset Boulevard again, and the rest are not annoying. On the way down Pearl, the Bundy light stayed inexplicably red for several minutes with me and cars waiting to cross. (It seemed longer.) Centinela also was red, but I rode the last blocks very slowly, and the light turned green as I reached the intersection.