Don's Classical Picks

Charles Griffes

Charles Girffes is a little known American composer who did not live long enough to compose very much.

Through the Looking Glass by Deems Taylor The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan The White Peacock Poem for Flute and Orchestra Three Tone Pictures Bacchanale by Charles Griffes Seattle Symphony Conducted by Gerard Schwarz Delos DE 3099, DDD

These short pieces by Griffes are wonderfully impressionistic and make great evening music. The Deems Taylor piece consists of a number of musical pictures from the story, Alice in Wonderland, and is pretty entertaining too.

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