You may have noticed the days are growing precipitously shorter. Soon, it will be as if morning runs into evening. So it’s not by accident that we’ll hear Alexander Alyabyev’s “Morning and Evening Overture” on this week’s “Sweetness and Light.” I’ll even toss noon into the mix for Franz von Suppé’s “Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna.”
But twilight will be here before you know it. We’ll honor the crepuscular with the light music classic “Dusk” by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs and “At Dusk” by Second New England School luminary Arthur Foote.
Finally, seemingly out of left field and because I say so, we’ll hear Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 6. Sibelius was once asked by a journalist to provide a motto for his new symphony. The composer responded, “When shadows lengthen.” It could be argued it’s not a “light” piece, exactly, but it is ravishingly beautiful, and it’s not played all that often.
I think somebody needed to tip me off about the supermoon. The days grow short, but hopefully the music is long on enjoyment, on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EST/8:00 PST, exclusively on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!
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