performed by the St. Louis Symphony under Leonard Slatkin, or below by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (cover image by Dawid Zawiła) The dialectic of this music, that is to say, its movement, the way each and every note comes out … Continue reading Copland Symphony no. 2, ‘Short Symphony’
performed by the St. Louis Symphony under Leonard Slatkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO2wTqo-eqg …a popular concert work which is the epitome of the twentieth-century symphony that could have been written by an American. (cover photo by Les Anderson) Howard Harold Hanson is not … Continue reading Howard Hanson: Symphony no. 2 in D-flat, op. 30, ‘Romantic’
Fugue for Thought 