So I get in my car, radio set to NPR, and I hear a symphony orchestra doing jigs. . .really nice. . .I recognize a tune or two (and I came in at the end), even play them, but I can’t figure out the names to save my life.
Vaughn Williams ‘The Running Set’. Anyone have it? Can anyone pick out the tunes that he used for inspiration?
NPR has a website. I believe it’s npr.org
I’ve heard them advertise on the radio that they list tunes played on and between programs. (I’ve never checked the site.) If you know what program you were listening to and the time/date, you probably have a good chance of finding something out. Unless they just call it The Running Set.
Tony
Tony, its name IS The Running Set. Vaughn Williams took a bunch of trad dance tunes and cobbled them together into this fairly short piece. Now the question is which tunes.