Enjoy these last few hours of winter. Spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere at 11:06 PM EDT. With any luck, I’ll be asleep by then, or reading the last 30 pages of “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
March 19 seem a little early for spring? It’s not just because the Groundhog proclaims it so.
https://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-spring-vernal-equinox
For me, Frank Bridge’s “Enter Spring” (1926) most successfully encapsulates the many moods of mercurial March.
With the vernal equinox upon us, enjoy Frank Bridge’s “Enter Spring” (1926-27). The conductor: Bridge’s star pupil, Benjamin Britten.
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