NICOLE V. GAGNÉ

This show, first broadcast on  October 25, 2015, deals with the glory days of neo-classical composition, the later 1920s and the 1930s. Igor Stravinsky remained the foremost champion of this approach, but numerous composers who worked in a range of styles also made sure to investigate neo-classical composition, among them Spain’s Manuel de Falla, Russia’s Dmitry Shostakovich, and Americans Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland (both pupils of Nadia Boulanger, an exponent of neo-classicism). Copland is quoted from my own interview with him. The works played are:

MANUEL DE FALLA

Harpsichord Concerto (1926)

VIRGIL THOMSON

Sonata da chiesa (1926)

AARON COPLAND

Short Symphony (1933)

DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH

Concerto for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings (1933)

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Symphony of Psalms (1930, rev. 1948)

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For more on Virgil Thomson, see:

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