Your social media feed is likely, like mine, flooded these days with pictures of friends' backpack-toting children, on their first day of school. No matter hold old we are, though—and how from our school days we get—we never cease feeling (and, I would submit, being energized by) the persistent rhythm of the end of summer/beginning of fall ritual of the return to the classroom. As we head "back to school" this week, tune in to Classical Music with Foley Schuler as each afternoon program this week, will feature music connected in some way with education and learning. On Thursday afternoon, this includes two works reflective of this spirit by the great English composer, Benjamin Britten: his "Simple Symphony" (written at age 20, but based on themes he had composed between 9 and 12), and the rousingly inventive "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell"—usually known, in fact (with a nod to it's origin as music for an educational film for children), as The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.
You can hear Foley Schuler's musical selections—and stories behind the music—every weekday afternoon from 1 until 4 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
