#ClassicsaDay #FunintheSun Week 3

We couldn't let the season go by without having some kind of summer-related theme. The Classics a Day team chose to catch some rays this August. And to find out how many classical composers did so with their music.

Of course, any summer-related topic is fair game, too. Here are my posts for the third week of #FunintheSun.

08/15/22 Ernest J. Moeran - Summer Valley

Moeran was inspired by the music of Frederick Delius. He wrote this 1925 work in homage to Delius, in loose imitation of his style.

8/16/22 Frederic Delius - In a Summer Garden

This 1908 work was partially inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetry: "All are my blooms; and all sweet blooms of love. To thee I gave while Spring and Summer sang."

8/17/22 Zoltan Kodaly - Summer Evening

This 1906 is considered Kodaly's first major orchestral work. It was premiered at a music academy graduation with Kodaly conducting. He revised it in 1929, and this is the version performed today.

8/18/22 George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)

Crumb completed this work in 1974. The instrumentation of two pianos and percussion was inspired by Bartok. Although Crumb expanded the number of percussion instruments and amplified the pianos.

8/19/22 Benjamin Britten: Holiday Diary, Op. 5

Britten wrote this suite when he was 21. He said it was an impression of "a boy's pre-war seaside holiday.”