Finally -- a musical list that makes sense! At the year's first SF
Symphony subscription concerts (see below), the program includes Michael
Steinberg's essay, "A Century Set to Music," in which he selects music
that speaks of its time. The article does not seem available on-line,
but what looks like a draft for it is at:

   http://www.sfsymphony.com/hframeweek.htm

>From the San Francisco Symphony program, Jan. 6-9, 2000, Steinberg's 20th
century orchestral repertory to be shipwrecked with, works that speak of
their time significantly -- "in some future century, whose testimony would
I want to conjure up?"

1909 Schoenberg, Five Pieces for Orchestra
1910 Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde
1911 Elgar, Symphony No. 2
1913 Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps
1913 Debuss, Jeux
1914 (?) Ives, Three Places in New England
1915 Berg, Three Pieces for Orchestra
1916 Nielsen, Symphony No. 4
1923 Bartok, The Miraculous Mandarin
1924 Sibelius, Symphony No. 7
1934 Hindemith, Mathis der Maler
1934-1947 Vaughan Williams, Symphonies 4-5-6
1941 Tippett, A Child of Our Time
1943 Shostakovich, Symphony No. 8
1960 Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
1962 Britten, War Requiem
1970 Sessions, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
1985 Adams, Harmonielehre
1987 Tavener, The Protecting Veil

Janos Gereben/SF
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