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2 Episodes 2020 - 2020
Episode 1
Mon, Sep 14, 2020
The young Felix Mendelssohn delighted in the free and easy life that he experienced on his 1829 trip to Italy. Later he wove his memories together in the amazingly colorful "Italian Symphony." Around 1900 the youthful Zoltan Kodaly traveled on foot in the backwoods, high mountains, and steppes of Hungary, Transylvania and Slovakia, gathering folk melodies from shepherds, gypsies, and common folk. Kodaly's "Dances of Galanta" capture the fiery spirit of this lost world. Pulitzer Prize winning composer Augusta Read Thomas' "Plea for Peace" concludes the program.
Episode 2
Mon, Sep 21, 2020
A huge chandelier fell from the ceiling just before the 1791 London premiere of Joseph Haydn's latest symphony - but the audience was saved because they had all crowded around the orchestra pit to watch Haydn at work. Thus was born the "Miracle Symphony." Another amazing event took place when King George I thrilled all of London with a floating barge of musicians playing Handel's spectacle "Water Music" along the River Thames. The program concludes with the transcendental "Prayer of St Gregory" by Alan Hovhaness.