That’s how Ben Johnson described his friend William Shakespeare, whose 450th anniversary falls tomorrow. We’ve done our bit to mark the occasion by composing a setting for the Bard’s famous Sonnet 18 and creating a video – which you can see here – of Matthew Henrick and The Cove Quartet performing it. Below, photographer Michele Mossop captures the spirit of the project with a combined image of Matthew and the famous engraving of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, which appeared in the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623.

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