We did a piece by Vasily Kalinnikov last week, so this week…let’s do another one!
Just as last week I was unable to dig up much actual information about the Bylina Overture, so too am I unable to find a lot out about The Cedar and the Palm, which is a “symphonic picture” written in 1898 (which happens to be the year my maternal grandmother was born). Here it is:
My maternal grandmother was born in 1898. Or so we thought until we took her to vote in the early 1960s, and she admitted she had been born in 1897!