The music serves to evoke the title city and guides the listener from the "Villa Borghese" to "the Catacombs" and finally to the Appian Way.
At the premiere its conductor was quoted as saying "let them boo, what do I care," and although the piece ended with a crowd pleasing march, audience members were displeased by the third movement's use of a recorded nightingale. Its opening depicts children at play and features a discordant trumpet call, this is contrasted by an austere second movement that climaxes with an insistent string figure in fifths. The music serves to evoke the title city and guides the listener from the "Villa Borghese" to "the Catacombs" and finally to the Appian Way. For 10 points - identify this symphonic poem describing spaces in which the title trees flourish, a work by Ottorino Respighi.
At the premiere its conductor was quoted as saying "let them boo, what do I care," and although the piece ended with a crowd pleasing march, audience members were displeased by the third movement's use of a recorded nightingale.
Pines of Rome or Pini di Roma