Classical Music
- Milton Babbitt – Don for four-hand piano, Ars Combinatoria for small orchestra
- George Crumb – Gnomic Variations for piano
- Peter Maxwell Davies – Piano Sonata
- Joël-François Durand – String Trio
- Lorenzo Ferrero
- Balletto
- Arioso II
- Bengt Hambraeus – Voluntary on a Swedish Hymn Tune from Dalecarlia
- George Lloyd – Tenth Symphony (for brass)
- Steve Reich – Tehillim
- Roger Sessions – Concerto for Orchestra (recorded by Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and for which the composer receives the Pulitzer Prize for Music)
- Robert Simpson – Quintet for clarinet and Strings; Symphony No. 8
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski – Clarinet Concerto
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“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“Good-by, my book! Like mortal eyes, imagined ones must close some day. Onegin from his knees will rise—but his creator strolls away. And yet the ear cannot right now part with the music and allow the tale to fade; the chords of fate itself continue to vibrate; and no obstruction for the sage exists where I have put The End: the shadows of my world extend beyond the skyline of the page, blue as tomorrow’s morning haze—nor does this terminate the phrase.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)