This week, on Sunday on Blue Lake, we'll begin by celebrating the birthday of American composer and mystic, Alan Hovhess, with several of his smaller-scale, more personal compositions—including music for piano written in honor of a beloved cat, and music for string quartet in which the composer pays tribute to the memory a favorite childhood tree. Then we'll remember Hector Berlioz on the anniversary of the great compoer's death, with a performance of his Requiem, Op.5—a work which, though a relatively early one, occupied the composer throughout his life and that he still revising just a few years before his death.
To round out the program, in our final our, we'll hear cellist Yo-Yo Ma as soloist with the Boston Symphony in one of the great tone poems by Richard Strauss, his "Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character," Don Quixote, Op. 35—on the anniversary of its premiere on March 8, 1898,
You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler, every Sudnay morning from 9 until noon on Blue Lake Public Radio.
