The Vocational Muse
Musical results of holidays are featured by Christopher Hog-wood in today's programme of record requests from the under-20s to mark the end of freedom from the academic routine: Schubert's ' Grand duo Sonata ' (on holiday in Hungary), Barber's Cello Sonata, Op 6 (on holiday in the Alps), Charles Ives ' recollections of Decoration Day in Connecticut (with two rival brass bands playing simultaneously!) and the work Ravel left behind in a shop when about to leave on a yachting trip ... To quote Antony Holborne - Heigh Ho, Holiday.
(The Academic Muset