#ClassicsaDay #FunintheSun Week 5
We couldn’t let the season go by without having some kind of summer-related theme. The Classics a Day team chose to catch some rays this August. 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 fifth and final week of #FunintheSun.
8/29/22 Frederick Delius – A Song of Summer
Delius completed this tone poem in 1931. It was based on a 1918 work. Delius had lost most of the score, and his reconstruction became “A Song of Summer.”
8/30/22 Ferde Grofé – Grand Canyon Suite
The opening and closing movements of this suite are “Sunrise” and “Sunset.” Grofé wrote this piece in 1929, and it was premiered by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra.
8/31/22 Frederick Delius – Summer Night on the River
This is part of Delius’ “Two Pieces for Orchestra.” It premiered with its companion piece “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring” in 1913. It wasn’t long before each piece was programmed separately, as they often are today.
