Broadcast – My March 7, 2009 concert with the WCFSO featuring Edgar Meyer performing his own music on an all-American program will air on Iowa Public Radio’s Symphonies of Iowa series Monday evening at 9:00 pm EST. If you are outside of the area listen via IPR’s mp3 stream or search for ’iowa public radio classical’ on your internet radio service. Listen to an excerpt from Ives’ Three Places in New England here.
Contented river! in thy dreamy realm–
The cloudy willow and the plumy elm:
Thou beautiful! from every dreamy hill
What eye but wanders with thee at thy will…
Contented river! And yet over-shy
To mask thy beauty from the eager eye;
Hast thou a thought to hide from field and town?
In some deep current of the sunlit brown…
Ah! there’s a restive ripple, and the swift
Red leaves –September’s firstlings–faster drift;
Wouldst thou away, dear stream? Come, whisper near!
I also of much resting have a fear:
Let me to-morrow thy companion be
By fall and shallow to the adventurous sea!
‘To the Housatonic at Stockbridge’
Robert Underwood Johnson, excerpted by Charles Ives
Ives – Three Places in New England, The Housatonic at Stockbridge
WCFSO – March 2009
