30. Anniversary Program: Bookends

Kirchner: Interlude I (November 2, 2003) Ravel: String Quartet in F Major (March 25, 2007) This week, we celebrate the one year anniversary of “The Concert” with a program dedicated to music of the 20th century, including our first-ever podcast of music by a living composer. The past hundred years have been a tumultuous time for all the arts, particularly music. We’ve seen an explosion of popular music and the genesis of dozens of new genres, from jazz to rock to rap. It has been a time of tremendous change in classical music, too, and today we’ll listen to some bookends of the century—from the very beginning and the very end. We’d like to thank music publisher G. Schirmer for their support in helping us to podcast the music of living composers, starting with this program.