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Culture / Staff Blog
A Playlist to Celebrate All Things Fall
Posted by Anna Gandolfi · 11/13/2019 12:00:20 AM
A cup of hot tea, the scent of pumpkin pie, a blanket and a book. For many, autumn is the most beautiful season. In fact, the season has inspired a wide range of composers to write works celebrating its warm colors and tones, chilly weather, and perhaps a dash of melancholy.
We’ve put together a list for you of some of those works. Listen to them when you find yourself contemplating the radiant colors of the fall leaves–or in Los Angeles, dreaming of them.
Arnold Bax: Symphony No 2, November Woods
“I put a great deal of time (and emotion) into the writing … it should be very broad indeed, with a kind of oppressive, catastrophic mood.” This is the 20th century English composer’s own description of his work. The symphony depicts the deconstructive nature of late autumn and the dark sky just before a storm.
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Autumn Gardens
Autumn Gardens is a nature portrait in which the revered 20th century Finnish composer pictures the season’s magical atmosphere, and the shadows it casts on the landscape.
Frederick Delius: North Country Sketches: Autumn
The English composer’s work consists of four movements. The first two, “Autumn” and “Winter Landscape,” depict the crispness, the fall colors, and ultimately the desolation that characterizes the Yorkshire landscape during these seasons of the year.
Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15
The third and longest movement of this iconic late Beethoven quartet is known as the “Holy song of Thanksgiving”. Somehow, this profoundly moving hymn sounds timeless, untethered from any specific sense of style or historical period. Beethoven’s works from this late period will be contemporary forever.
Culture / Staff Blog
A Playlist to Celebrate All Things Fall
Posted by Anna Gandolfi · 11/13/2019 12:00:20 AM
A cup of hot tea, the scent of pumpkin pie, a blanket and a book. For many, autumn is the most beautiful season. In fact, the season has inspired a wide range of composers to write works celebrating its warm colors and tones, chilly weather, and perhaps a dash of melancholy.
We’ve put together a list for you of some of those works. Listen to them when you find yourself contemplating the radiant colors of the fall leaves–or in Los Angeles, dreaming of them.
Arnold Bax: Symphony No 2, November Woods
“I put a great deal of time (and emotion) into the writing … it should be very broad indeed, with a kind of oppressive, catastrophic mood.” This is the 20th century English composer’s own description of his work. The symphony depicts the deconstructive nature of late autumn and the dark sky just before a storm.
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Autumn Gardens
Autumn Gardens is a nature portrait in which the revered 20th century Finnish composer pictures the season’s magical atmosphere, and the shadows it casts on the landscape.
Frederick Delius: North Country Sketches: Autumn
The English composer’s work consists of four movements. The first two, “Autumn” and “Winter Landscape,” depict the crispness, the fall colors, and ultimately the desolation that characterizes the Yorkshire landscape during these seasons of the year.
Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15
The third and longest movement of this iconic late Beethoven quartet is known as the “Holy song of Thanksgiving”. Somehow, this profoundly moving hymn sounds timeless, untethered from any specific sense of style or historical period. Beethoven’s works from this late period will be contemporary forever.
