Music Appreciation For The Rest Of Us: Andrew Constantine Podcasts On Great Symphonic Masterworks

Could there be a musical genius teaching at your school? For the students of 1912 at St. Paul School in London there was, the great Gustav Holst, famed for his huge orchestral work The Planets. You will learn more about the life of Holst and his experiences as both composer and teacher. Poulenc was one of a group of six French composers who achieved great renown after WWI. Today he is most famous for his songs and the opera Dialogue of the Carmelites, though his organ concerto is certainly no less worthy. This past season the RSO performed New World Symphony by Dvorak. You will be hearing another of his works, the Symphonic Dances (which were written about twenty years earlier). Andrew Constantine is joined in this discussion by Dave Kline of WEEU. The works discussed on this podcast will be performed by the RSO on Saturday, January 19th 2007.