Joy!
Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to Joy! , today's episode of Resounding Echoes . Apologies if my voice is not the best today - I came down with something a few days ago, but I will try to do my best. Today's programme was all set to be a short and joyous affair - that was until last Monday, the twenty-first, when I read something very disappointing and unacceptable on this website ...
Listen — Robert McCarney: Joy! (Resounding Echoes )
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Copyright © 27 October 2024
Robert McCarney
Joy!
Alexander Tcherepnin: Symphony No 1 (1927)
Ruth Crawford : Joy (1929)
Alban Berg : Der Wein (1929)
Olivier Messiaen : Preludes (1929)
Nikos Skalkottas : String Quartet No 1 (1928)
Ruth Crawford: Preludes (1929)
Amy Beach : String Quartet (1929)
Ernst Krenek : Reisebuch aus den Österreichischen Alpen (1929)
The music at the very start and end of this programme has been created specially for the Resounding Echoes series by Swiss composer Daniel Schorno .
There's further information here about Caroline Elkins' book Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (2022) , you can listen to Robert's previous programme, What's in a Name? here and Roderic Dunnett's 1999 article about Wexford Festival Opera is here .
There's further information about Robert's Resounding Echoes series here .
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The background image on this page has been derived from an October 2024 photo by Keith Bramich of a painted hoarding during repair works on the EU Commission office in Helsinki, Finland.
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