Comments on: Happy Independence Day from Charles and Greta http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/07/happy-independence-day-from-charles-and-greta/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Wed, 22 May 2013 02:29:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: zeno http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/07/happy-independence-day-from-charles-and-greta/comment-page-1/#comment-25961 zeno Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:16:28 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5882#comment-25961 I heard the Philadelphia Orchestra give its first performance of Ives’s full Holiday Symphony back in the autumn of 1974 (in the old Academy of Music) while I was an undergraduate.

Michael Tilson Thomas’s San Francisco Symphony “Keeping Score” program on Ives’s Holiday Symphony is also enthusiastic, magical, and well-executed; and is highly recommended to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet:

http://www.keepingscore.org/interactive/ives-holidays-symphony

And here is a list which includes some of the allegedly “broadly appealing” American classical music broadcast yesterday on public radio in the Nation’s Capital (no Charles Ives or George Crumb; although they did play a Lou Harrison piece for the first time a few days earlier – the Suite for Violin, Piano, and Small Orchestra):

http://www.weta.org/fm/playlists/classicalweta/2011/07/04

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