On the 150th birthday of Charles Ives, we’ll contrast his vision of American music’s future and the future anticipated by Antonín Dvořák, and works by two living American composers, Jessie Montgomery and Carlos Simon, who sound to have taken both elders’ advice.
7-9 p.m. EDT
2300-0100 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
Ives: “Variations on ‘America’ ”
Gerard Brooks, organ
(Priory)
Dvořák: String Quintet in E flat major, Op. 97
Pavel Haas Quartet
Pavel Nikl, viola
(Supraphon)
Jessie Montgomery: “Banner”
Catalyst Quartet
(Azica)
Ives: “The Unanswered Question”
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Carlos Simon: “Wake Up! (Concerto for Orchestra)”
National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
(National Symphony Orchestra)
Ives: Symphony No. 2
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas
(Sony Classical)
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