"It was on today’s date in 1922 that English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams conducted the American premiere of his Symphony No. 3 (Pastoral) at the Litchfield County music festival in Norfolk, Connecticut. It was his first trip to the U.S., and he reacted to American landscapes and customs with wonder and amusement." https://www.yourclassical.org/episode/2021/06/07/composers-datebook-ralph-vaughan-williams
I've long been a fan of Héloïse Werner and her work with The Hermes Experiment. She has a new album coming out at the end of this month. She has released one single ahead of that album, the second album to be released under her name.
Arie, Op. 8: No. 6, Che si può fare (Arr. for voice and strings by Richard Birchall)
Bunged on a disc of Honegger symphonies, haven't heard it in a dog's age and don't know them very well, but I do recall enjoying them before. 💿 #ClassicalMusic
Time for the weekly digest thread for my #OPM series! (This is for you folk that don't like clicking off Mastodon, tho I assure you my site is advertising and tracking free!).
You don’t hear a lot of new classical music these days, but it’s out there! Case in point, this collection of classical compositions from composer Stanley Grill, which would sit well next to anything you’d hear in a concert hall by any of those old dead European guys. Stately, rich and full of nuance, this is the real deal (to my relatively untrained ears at least).