wed 15 mar 2023 20:00 hour
National Tree Planting Day.
You may have missed it, but today is National Tree Planting Day. Thousands of elementary school children are planting trees today to green our living environment. Even great composers have written music about trees. Sometimes very literally about specific trees, sometimes about a mystical tree, or about a whole forest.
Dimitri Shostakovich. The Song of the Forests.
Michail Kotljarov, Nikita Storojev, Brighton Festival Chorus, New London Children’s Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
John Cage. Plantwork. Arnold Marinissen.
Andrzej Panufnik. Arbor sacra.
New York Chamber Symphony conducted by the composer.
Toru Takamitsu. Rain Tree Sketch. Kamako Abe, piano.
