Irving Fine: Celebrating the Composer’s Centenary

Irving Fine: Celebrating the Composer’s Centenary

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Irving Fine, you’re so fine. You’re so Fine, you blow my mind.

This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” we’ll mark the centenary of the birth (on December 3, 1914) of this most appropriately named composer, with an hour of his well-crafted music. We’ll hear works for piano, mixed chorus, woodwind quintet, and string orchestra.

For more on Fine, see my post of December 3.

I’ve mentioned several times, between the show and my postings, Fine’s late flirtation with serialism. Since I don’t actually include any of the twelve-tone works on my playlist (too many other short, beautiful pieces to cover), I’ll include a link to his Symphony here.

This is twelve-tone music for people who don’t like twelve-tone music.

Fine conducted the work’s premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1962. Less than two weeks later, he was dead of a massive coronary at the age of 47.

I hope you’ll join me for “Everything’s Fine,” this Sunday night at 10 ET, with a repeat Wednesday evening at 6; or that you’ll listen to it later as a webcast at http://www.wwfm.org.

PHOTO: (Left to right) The inseparable Lukas Foss, Irving Fine and Harold Shapero, composers of the “Boston Six,” doin’ nothin’


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