Tony Duggan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>As Ian Crisp has mentioned, here in Britain in just four days from
>now, just after 11am, we will enjoy our first total solar eclipse for
>seventy-two years. ... As the skies darken in the middle of the day
>does anyone have any suggestions for music that we should play to get
>us through? My own thought is Sun Treader by Ruggles.
Fine piece; but it sure doesn't sound like any eclipse _i've_ experienced.
I'd go with Hovhaness's _Celestial Gate symphony_ (Werthen on Telarc would
do fine) or _Moonscape_ by the Australian composer Eric Gross (Jade - the
Australian label; not its European namesake)....
All the best,
Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]>