It was first performed by John Kirkpatrick at New York's Town Hall in 1939, twenty years after its publication along side the composer's essays about completing this work. The four-note motto of Beethoven's 5th Symphony emerges throughout the work-- particularly in the peaceful third section that describes one of Bronson's brood playing a piano given to her by Sophia Thoreau. With a scherzo in the second section that aims
It was first performed by John Kirkpatrick at New York's Town Hall in 1939, twenty years after its publication along side the composer's essays about completing this work. The four-note motto of Beethoven's 5th Symphony emerges throughout the work-- particularly in the peaceful third section that describes one of Bronson's brood playing a piano given to her by Sophia Thoreau. With a scherzo in the second section that aims to evoke "the fantastical adventures" of Hawthorne, and a final section about waking up at Walden pond. FTP identify this 4 part work for piano that begins with the "Emerson" movement a work by Charles Ives.
It was first performed by John Kirkpatrick at New York's Town Hall in 1939, twenty years after its publication along side the composer's essays about completing this work.