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Modern Music and the Tradition, Part 2 of 2
Following episode 257 (Sept. 1, 1985) about the status of classical music in the 1980s and the musical canon and its historical and contemporary shapers, Soundings presents a performance of the 1984 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award–winning composition, Symphony no. 2, … Continue reading
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Modern Music and the Tradition, Part 1 of 2
Music historians Edward Applebaum and William Prizer address the subject of modern music and its evolving place in the musical canon. Joseph Addison, the eighteenth-century man of letters, wrote “Music, the greatest good that mortals know / And all of heaven we have … Continue reading
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