Throughout history, composers and musicians have been inspired by the calendar and its seasons. As we enter into this most patriotic month of the year, we’ll treat ourselves to some musical “July variations.”
Vivaldi wasn’t the only composer who wrote about “the Seasons”. Tonight we’ll hear a different version as pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy opens our evening with the seventh movement of Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons” (sometimes called, more appropriately, “the Months”). The seventh movement is, as you may have guessed, July. And since July is just beginning, there’s more of it to come. The New Century Saxophone Quartet generates midday energy and heat in American Michael Torke’s “July (1995),” giving way to the cool summer evening of Fanny Mendelssohn’s “July in F,” performed by German pianist Sontraud Spiedel. It’s a great musical start to a great month!
Vivaldi wasn’t the only composer who wrote about “the Seasons”. Tonight we’ll hear a different version as pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy opens our evening with the seventh movement of Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons” (sometimes called, more appropriately, “the Months”). The seventh movement is, as you may have guessed, July. And since July is just beginning, there’s more of it to come. The New Century Saxophone Quartet generates midday energy and heat in American Michael Torke’s “July (1995),” giving way to the cool summer evening of Fanny Mendelssohn’s “July in F,” performed by German pianist Sontraud Spiedel. It’s a great musical start to a great month!
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