Music is all around us. In this adventure, the first of 3, we'll hear how compositions like Jean Sibelius' lovely 'Swan of Tuonela' and Britten's atmospheric 'Sea Interludes' vividly portray the wonders of the natural world. Ottorino Respighi's 'Botticelli Pictures' - musical descriptions of famous paintings - are a rare treat, while Igor Stravinsky's 'Fireworks' and Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Wellington's Victory' sound out the colors of celebration and battle, as the lone trumpet call of Aaron Copland's 'Quiet City' brings to mind the unique character of the American metropolis. These are just a few of the highly effective works we will explore that composers have written to summon up the images we have of the world around us and the emotions we feel when we summon those images.
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Cellist David Sims studied at the Indiana University and Yale schools of music and has performed at the Tanglewood and Waterloo festivals, as well as the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo, where he was also a faculty performer for the June in Buffalo young composer seminars. In January he was awarded an Alumni Ventures grant from the Yale School of Music allowing him to expand the scope of his music classes and offer them more widely throughout Connecticut.
