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Each weekday on JPR's Classics & News Service, we shine the spotlight on a pair of pieces we've chosen as "Featured Works." Tune in at 9am during First Concert and 2pm during Siskiyou Music to hear a bit of background on the pieces and composers, as well as commentary on important dates in classical music history.

Featured Works - July 2022

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Featured Works for July – First Concert
(*Indicates July birthday)

July 1 F Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No. 1

July 4 M Barbara Harbach: Freedom Suite
July 5 T Paul Ben-Haim*: Violin Concerto
July 6 W Salomon Jadassohn: Piano Concerto No. 2
July 7 T Gian Carlo Menotti*: Triplo Concerto a Tre
July 8 F George Antheil*: Valentine Waltzes

July 11 M Edward MacDowell: Second Modern Suite
July 12 T Anton Arensky*: Suite No. 2; “Silhouettes”
July 13 W Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto in E major for Two Pianos
July 14 T Jean-Baptiste ‘Citoyen’ Davaux: Symphonie Concertante
July 15 F Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

July 18 M Julius Fucík*: Traumideale (Dream Ideal)
July 19 T Peggy Stuart Coolidge*: Rhapsody for Harp and Orchestra
July 20 W Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on Haibel’s “Le Nozze Disturbate”
July 21 T Robert Kahn*: Cello Sonata No. 2
July 22 F Gabriel Fauré: Dolly

July 25 M Aaron Copland: Prairie Journal (Music for Radio)
July 26 T Francesco Cilea*: Piano Trio in D major
July 27 W Enrique Granados*: Escenas romanticas (Romantic Scenes)
July 28 T Peter Müller*: Wind Quintet No. 1
July 29 F Alexander Glazunov*: Le Chant du Destin

Featured Works for July – Siskiyou Music Hall
(*Indicates July birthday)

July 1 F Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata in A major

July 4 M Don Gillis: Star-Spangled Symphony
July 5 T Josef Holbrooke*: The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd
July 6 W Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
July 7 T Gustav Mahler*: Symphony No. 1
July 8 F Percy Grainger*: The Warriors

July 11 M Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
July 12 T Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2
July 13 W William Walton: Cello Concerto
July 14 T Vincent d’Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air
July 15 F Ernest Bloch: Violin Sonata No. 2, “Poeme Mystique”

July 18 M Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 91
July 19 T Joachim Raff: Piano Quartet No. 1
July 20 W Gunnar de Frumerie*: Pastoral Suite
July 21 T Henri Dutilleux: L’Arbre des Songes
July 22 F Gaspar Cassado: Cello Sonata

July 25 M Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Suite-Concertino for Bassoon & Orchestra
July 26 T John Field*: Piano Concerto No. 6
July 27 W Erno Dohnányi*: Suite for Orchestra
July 28 T Bernhard Henrik Crusell*: Clarinet Concerto No. 3
July 29 F Antonin Dvorák: String Quartet in E flat major

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