The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 104 - 1950 Formal Art Music in Transition - 26-05-25
Update: 2025-05-26
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It is often said that the 1950s was an era of bland conformity as a war ravaged world sought healing through normality and in many ways the 1950s were just that but the undercurrents of unease were strong and everywhere creatives were looking for new ways to examine the shifting tides of a rapidly changing world and in this episode we’ll be exploring some of the musical trends and experiments that were redefining the world of formal art music in 1950.
Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter
Benjamin Britten - Lachrymae, Reflections on a Song of John Dowland
Herbert Howells - I Heard a Voice from Heaven - The 5th movement from Hymnus Paradisi
Aaron Copland - Old American Songs: Set I No. 4, Simple Gifts (the Shaker Song)
Dawn Upshaw performs Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Lou Harrison - Entrance of the Moon Bull from Solstice
John Cage - Quietly Flowing Along (Summer) from String Quartet in Four Parts
Henri Pousseur - 3 Sacred Songs
Herbert Eimert - Klangstudie I
Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry - The Scherzo from Symphony for One Man Only.
Dmitri Shostakovich - The People of Stalingrad Go Forth from Song of the Forest.
Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter
Benjamin Britten - Lachrymae, Reflections on a Song of John Dowland
Herbert Howells - I Heard a Voice from Heaven - The 5th movement from Hymnus Paradisi
Aaron Copland - Old American Songs: Set I No. 4, Simple Gifts (the Shaker Song)
Dawn Upshaw performs Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Lou Harrison - Entrance of the Moon Bull from Solstice
John Cage - Quietly Flowing Along (Summer) from String Quartet in Four Parts
Henri Pousseur - 3 Sacred Songs
Herbert Eimert - Klangstudie I
Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry - The Scherzo from Symphony for One Man Only.
Dmitri Shostakovich - The People of Stalingrad Go Forth from Song of the Forest.
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