Following the heated nationalist fervor of the latter 19th-century Romantics, composers in the dawning modern age largely settled into a more sublimated expression of their national musical heritage, which they themselves continued to develop and recast.
Entries from England (Holst), France (Ravel) and Russia (Prokofiev)—all composed within a five-year period—bear witness to this phenomenon, while contemporary West Coast composer Donald Crockett’s winsome, blue-tinged, decidedly American guitar concerto reaffirms it.
RAVEL le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-1917)
PROKOFIEV Classical Symphony (1917)
CROCKETT En La Tierra (2011)
HOLST St. Paul's Suite (1922)





