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Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Sibelius Symphony No. 5 - Analysis Watch Stephen Johnson's analysis of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Two contemporary compositions provided the framework for the haunting, ebullient ...

Coming at the end of the evening, Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 cast a bright and somewhat unforgiving light on the other 20th-century symphony that had begun Thursday night’s Seattle Symphony program.

In his diary, Sibelius noted the inspiration for the grand theme in his Fifth Symphony: "Today I saw 16 swans. God, what beauty! They circled over me for a long time. Disappeared into the solar haze ...