Vivian Fine's Concertante for Piano and Orchestra
This March, the Daily Classical Music Post will introduce you to some of the most wonderful music ever composed—and, yes, it will all be by women composers! https://youtu.be/U79xEl3WUp8 Vivian Fine (1913–2000) was one of America’s most important composers in the 20th century. She was best known for her chamber music, but she wrote in every genre. She wrote extensively for voice. She composed two chamber operas, The Women in the Garden (1978) and Memoirs of Uliana Rooney (1994). Fine received several awards in her career, including an individual NEA grant for The Women in the Garden and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Fine studied harmony and counterpoint with Roger Sessions. It was during this time that she composed her first orchestral work, Concertante for Piano and Orchestra (1944). Heidi Von Gunden wrote, "The Concertante for Piano and Orchestra comes at the end of Fine’s study with Sessions. . . . When Sessions saw sketches of the Concertante both teacher and student sensed that...