#ClassicsaDay #NorthAmClassics Week 5, 2024

The #ClassicsaDay challenge for July is to post music by Canadian and American composers. Both countries have created their own forms of classical music, independent of Europe's.

Ralph Graves 4/28/23 Ralph Graves 4/28/23

#ClassicaDay #ClassicalQuartet Week 4

April is the fourth month of the year. And so the Classics a Day team decided to make it quartet month. This April the challenge is to post classical works that require four musicians. String quartets are the most common grouping of four -- but there are others.

Hinke Younger 3/26/22 Hinke Younger 3/26/22

WorldView Episode 05: Joan Tower

Joan Tower’s Purple Rhapsody premiered in 2005 by the Omaha Symphony Orchestra with violist Paul Neubauer, to whom the work is dedicated. The piece is roughly twenty minutes long and consists of one continuous composition; unlike a concerto, Rhapsody does not have individual movements. It is one of Tower’s more recent works, though it was published more than three decades after her career as a composer began.

WTJU Radio 12/15/21 WTJU Radio 12/15/21

Joan Tower scores a hit with Strike Zones

These works were more than just an exhibition of beats. Tower uses her solo instruments percussively. But she also uses them expressively.

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