The Part-Time Connection

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Charles Ives worked most of his life as an insurance company executive.

Alexander Borodin was a highly-respected chemist.

And Henry VIII—well, you know all about him—or do you?

Because, like the others, he was a part-time composer.

In this hour, you’ll hear how each of them (and several others) managed to turn out some pretty impressive music in their spare time.

RECORDINGS USED

CD Title	Group/Artist	Catalog #	UPC
Symphony No. 2, etc. [for Polovstian Dances]	Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Gennady Rozhdestvensky	CHAN 9386	09115938621
All Goodly Sports [for Henry VIII: “Green Groweth the Holly” and “Helas, Madame” ]	Sirinu	Chandos CHAN 0621	095115062128
Calliope: Dances [for Henry VIII: “Tander Naken”]	Calliope	Nonesuch 79039	0075597903928
Wassenaer: Concerti Armonici	Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman	Helios CDH55155	034571151557
Russian Overtures & Orchestral Works [for Mussorgsky Khovanshchina Prelude]	Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev	Newton Classics 8802037	8718247710379
“From Greenland's Icy Mountains” [1909 archival recording]	Edison Mixed Quartet	-	Public Domain
Charles Ives: The String Quartets	Blair String Quartet	Naxos 8.559178	636943917824
Hanson Conducts Moore, Carpenter, Rogers and Phillips [for Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator]	Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Howard Hanson	Mercury Living Presence 434 319-2	028943431927

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