This program, first broadcast on January 19, 2014, looks at two major symphonic works from 1934. One has been celebrated and the other neglected, but both offer powerful forebodings of the coming worldwide conflagration: the Fourth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Second Symphony of Kurt Weill. To deepen appreciation of these two great composers, other works of theirs are also included in the program:
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Lark Ascending (1914, rev. 1920)
Symphony No. 4 (1934)
Symphony No. 9, Third Movement (Scherzo) (1957)
KURT WEILL
Happy End, “Der Kleine Leutnant des Lieben Gottes,”“Matrosen-Tango,” “Der Song von Mandelay,” “Surabaya-Johnny” (1929)
Symphony No. 2 (1934)
Kiddush (1946)
Link to:
Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018
For more on these composers, see:
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
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For more on Ralph Vaughan Williams, see:
Music: KALW Radio Show #6, Gender Variance in Western Music, part 2: Female-to-Male Representations
Music: SFCR Radio Show #22, Neo-Classicism, part 3
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 