#ClassicsaDay #FunintheSun Week 4

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 fourth week of #FunintheSun.

8/22/22 Sergei Prokofiev: Summer Day Suite Op. 65b

This suite was originally part of a collection of piano pieces for children. Prokofiev selected seven of them for this orchestrated suite in 1941.

8/23/22 Alexander Glazunov: The Seasons (Summer)

Glazunov provded the music for a ballet by Marius Petipa. This 1899 work is now most often heard as a concert piece, rather than a staged ballet.

8/24/22 Samuel Barber: Summer Music for Wind Quintet

Barber composed this work for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. It was originally intended for strings and woodwinds, but the final version, which premiered in 1953, became a wind quintet.

8/25/22 John Playford - Upon a summer's day

This is one of the many tunes published in the 1651 English Dancing Master. Playford's book provided dance steps and music to accompany them. The book was extremely popular, running four editions over a period of 77 years.

8/26/22 Ned Rorem - End of Summer

Rorem composed this three-movement suite for the Verdehr Trio, which premiered it in 1986. Rorem writes that the suite "was suggested by musical works of yore."