Now is the month of maying!
This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” at the end of a lusty day of reveling around the maypole and “playing barley-break,” unwind with three 20th century instrumental and orchestral works inspired by Renaissance madrigals.
Tune in for Igor Stravinsky’s “Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa,” Bohuslav Martinu’s “Three Madrigals” for violin and viola, and Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto Madrigal,” a piece for two guitars and orchestra.
Fie then! why sit we musing, youth’s sweet delight refusing? Celebrate May Day with “Unsung Madrigals,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
Throwback to Merrie England
Maypole dance from “La Fille mal gardée”
Suite from Howard Hanson’s “Merry Mount” (after Hawthorne’s “The Maypole of Merry Mount”)
A toast to Merrymount’s Thomas Morton
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Shakespeare, the May Pole and the Hobby Horse
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Welcoming the sun with a good old-fashioned morris dance
May Day is for capering around the May Pole. Beltane is for embarrassing your parents.
The May Day Fish-Slapping Dance and the Gavotte of the Long John Silvers
“Now is the month of maying” on crumhorns
Deer Man
Fa la la la la la la la la, fa la la la la la la!