Thomson composed a number of scores for film, so as with other classical composers of the 20th century, certain of his works may have been heard more often than recognized, as accompanying music. Thomson was seen as a product of his Midwestern upbringing, in Kansas City, Missouri, scoring atmospheric music that can suggest the wide-open spaces also explored by his contemporary, and sometime rival, Aaron Copland. TSO music director Adam Flatt will conduct acting concertmaster for the evening will be Levon Margaryan. Monday's concert will begin with Virgil Thomson's "Autumn," a concertina for harp, percussion and strings, with Abigail Workman and Katherine Hoppe McQueen on harp. ![]() Much like the blues, it's music that lifts from and overcomes, rather than wallows within. Though poets commit entire thesauruses trying to pin down the season, one word for fall, and music chosen for the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra's "Autumn Leaves" could be "melancholy:" pensive with a pervasive sadness, but not beyond hope or joy. ![]() Extending between the blatant fires of summer and Grace Paley's bare birches "tattered, tired of sustaining delicacy," it's also a celebration of harvests, bracing and preparing for darker nights ahead.Īs the poem "L'Autunno," released to accompany Antonio Vivaldi's "Autumn" section of his "Four Seasons" reminds, it's enjoying the fruits of harvests, consuming "full of Bacchus' liquor:" "The mild air gives pleasure, and the season invites many to enjoy a sweet slumber." Intentionally or not, Vivaldi projected the idyllic pleasures of the soothing post-Thanksgiving snooze. ![]() Autumn is not simply the underfoot crunch of bronzed, gilded, roseate leaves on a trek toward bleak midwinter.
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