Classical Now – May 26, 2014 hour 1
Classical Now – May 26, 2014 hour 2
We celebrate Memorial Day with music by Charles Ives, “Decoration Day” from his Holiday Symphony. May 25 was the death anniversary of British composer Gustav Holst; while May 31 is Walt Whitman’s birthday. We pull it all together with Holst’s setting of “A Dirge for Two Veterans.” We also hear Holst’s symphonic poem, “Indra.” “New World a-Comin’
” by Duke Ellington will be played. Sprinkled throughout are a few marches from John Philip Sousa.