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Haydn’s Drum Roll

The Symphony existed before Franz Josef Haydn, but it was he who formed how we experience it.  He composed an astonishing 104 Symphonies, with the “Drum Roll” one of his […]

Appalachian Spring

Two beloved favorites inspired by folk music – Vaughan Williams haunting Fantasia on Greensleeves and Aaron Copland’s tender Appalachian Spring – cradle and console the 1940 Clarinet Concerto by the 19-year-old Ruth Gipps, composed […]