Good morning, you gently-swaying daffodils on the breeze of charm and delight, happy Sunday and welcome back to my little music series (hopefully none of you read last week’s installment and decide to just skip the content entirely from now on), and an introduction to the Modern Era.
When speaking of the modern era in concert music, I mean the period from the early nineteen hundreds to basically the present (some say we’re in the post-modern era, but whatevs). In Robert Greenburg’s wonderful series How to Listen to and Appreciate Great Music, his study of this era introduces the composers Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg, and that’s what I’m going to do as well, but this is a rich time period that also includes Mahler, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel, Bartok, Prokofiev and so many more that we get to explore. Let’s listen to some music now:
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