With the "gales of November" upon us, this week marks the anniversary of one of the great maritime distasters of our time—the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, during a catastrophic severe storm. All 29 crew members perished, making it the most famous and largest shipwreck in the history of the Great Lakes. The Detroit-bound ship and its men were memorialized famously the following year in a ballad by singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, and over 50 years later, we continue to be haunted by the event. On Thursday afternoon's Classical Music with Foley Schuler, as a musical remembrance, we will hear a new work for flute and guitar evoking Lake Superior by the acclaimed Grand Rapids-based Folias Duo from their recent release Great Lakes, as well several stirring musical depictions of shipwreck by Grieg and Rimsky-Korsakov, and special related selections by Debussy and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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.
