General Music Chat

I took in a concert at Orchestra Hall yesterday afternoon, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 and Vaughn William's Symphony No.4. The Beethoven was pedestrian but the Vaughn Williams blew me (and everyone else) away. He was a medic in WWI and his job was to collect the dead and dying after the battle. This experience must have been very profound, because the symphony sounded like a war. One of the most exhilarating classical concerts I've seen, and I've seen a ton.

Is this the guy Jimmy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU

My eldest son plays violin.
I try to turn him on to new stuff as often as possible.

No YouTube at work. It's not exactly new, he wrote it in the thirties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_N ... n_Williams)

Yeah, yeah, same guy Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Different piece.
Cool, I'll have to ask George if he's heard of him.