The only female member of the influential group of French composers known as Les Six—and in her later years, the last surviving member of the group—Germaine Tailleferre helped blaze a trail for women composers in the French musical world, and left behind a wide and diverse body of music, from which we'll hear a work for two pianos and another for harp and orchestra in honor of the anniversary of the composer's birth. Also on the program, we'll mark the 80th birthday earlier this week of Latvia's leading composer, Peteris Vasks with music for english horn and orchetra based on the folks music of his active land—and in honor of National Poetry Month, we offer, as our musical centerpiece, Franz Liszt's epic masterwork inspired by Goeth's Fasust, A Faust Symphony.
You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler every Sunday from 9 until noon on Blue Lake Public Radio.
