Prairie Performances

Music of the Interwar

Mel Miller
 
A scene from Stravinsky's ballet, Apollo, featuring two dancers positioned in geometric poses.
Listen (Duration: 58:00)

On tonight’s Prairie Performances, we explore music of the Interwar Period, a dynamic and fascinating time that sounded out a number of changes in the world of classical music, including the rise of neoclassicism (Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody On a Theme of Paganini and Igor Stravinsky’s Apollo), influences from jazz (George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue), and the painful echoes of the First World War (Edward Elgar’s Cello Concert in E minor, Op. 85). 

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