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Underwrite a ProgramWe couldn’t let the season go by without having some kind of summer-related theme. For this August, the Classics a Day team chose to catch some rays. And, to find out how many classical composers did so with their music.
Of course, any summer-related topic is fair game, too. Here are my posts for the first week of #FunintheSun.
The six Op. 20 quartets are collectively known as the Sun Quartets. The name comes from the 1774 printing which featured a rising sun on the cover.
Ruggles based his 1926 work on Robert Browning’s poem “Pauline” In it, the poet writes, “Sun-treader, light and life be thine forever.”
This aria comes from Arne’s cantata, “The Morning.” Arne used a text based on John Milton’s writings for this 1755 work.
Helios was the Greek sun god. He drove a horse-drawn chariot across the sky daily, from east to west. Nielsen’s 1903 score was inspired by Greek art he studied during a trip to Athens. Art that, of course, depicted Helios in flight.
This quartet is nicknamed the “Sunrise” quartet. But not by Haydn. The rising theme supported by sustained chords seemed to suggest the rising sun (to somebody).
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