In one of the classic tropes of classical music history, the green and pleasant land of England went 300 years without a great composer—basically waiting from the death of Henry Purcell in 1695 until the emergence of Edward Elgar in the late 19th Century. He made up for lost time though and put his country on the international musical map again, creating some of the great masterpieces of the 20th Century—and he also happened to have one of the greatest mustaches in classical music. Monday afternoon, in honor of Elgar's birthday, Foley Schuler will feature several works of his spanning his career, including the "Wand of Youth Suite," Op. 1, his well-known "Pomp and Circumstance" Marches—and the work that Elgar himself considered to be his finest: Falstaff – A Symphonic Study in D Minor, Op. 68.
You can hear Foley Schuler's musical selections—and stories behind the music—every weekday afternoon from 1 until 5 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
