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After witnessing the eruption of Mount St. Helens from his home in 1980, Alan Hovhaness was commissioned by his former publisher to write a symphony about…
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"His complexities don't always add up, but when they do, a richness of experience is suggested that is unobtainable in any other way," wrote Aaron…
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French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz wrote his most famous work, Symphonie Fantastique, to win the affection of a woman. Describing the doom of the…
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"Two springs gush forth in the shade of the Bohemian forest, the one warm and swift flowing, the other cool and tranquil." Bedrich Smetana describes his…
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I'm keeping the #SundaySymphony tradition alive this time with Wilhelm Stenhammar's 2nd and Glazunov's 3rd. Catch these two symphonies and more coming up…
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Music can provide a great escape. Escape from the heat into the cool Alps with Richard Strauss and his tone poem "Alpine Symphony." We'll hear from the…
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I continue to honor the Sunday Symphony tradition this Sunday when I play the entirety of Ralph Vaughan Williams' symphony no. 5 and a long choral work…
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According to its program note, Jef van Hoof's second symphony is a "war symphony." Writing in 1941, the Flemish composer jotted in the margin, "The whole…
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The holiday season is never complete without Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. On this week’s Sunday Symphony, hear the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s…
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Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez leads the New Orchestra of Washington in their recent recording of Klaus Simon’s arrangement of Mahler’s 4th symphony. The…