Yesterday I was fortunate enough to get in my car and turn on the radio just as one of my favorite pieces of music was starting. Howard Hanson\u2019s Symphony No.2, \u201cRomantic,\u201d is a beautiful piece of music, one that refreshes and invigorates the listener emotionally\/spiritually.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve never heard the piece, there are at least two places where you can listen to it online. <\/p>\n
There is an NPR program from 2005<\/a> which begins with this symphony (the entire thing, with some introductory commentary, is available online<\/a>). <\/p>\n There is also an Italian site<\/a> which\u00a0allows you to either listen online or\u00a0download the\u00a0recording as an mp3<\/a>.<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n Someone\u00a0observed to me recently that I haven\u2019t been mentioning in my Facebook status as much as I used to what pieces of music I\u2019ve been listening to. It is a result of not listening as often as I\u2019d like, more than anything else. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to get in my car and turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5289174378855507342?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")