On this edition of the Interlochen Collection, it's a program featuring a variety of musical fantasias. Listen to the entire episode below.
Episode playlist
Vittorio Giannini, Fantasia for Band
High School Symphonic Band
Butler Eitel, conductor
August 15, 1964
Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 1: IV Finale (quasi una fantasia)
World Youth Symphony Orchestra
George C. Wilson, conductor
Ed Catton, announcer
August 20, 1972
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Interlochen Arts Academy String Orchestra
David Holland, conductor
2000-2001
James Barnes, Fantasy on a Theme of Paganini
Interlochen Arts Academy Band
Richard J. Suddendorf, conductor
May 6, 1989
The archival recordings heard on this program are available thanks to generous support from our listeners, The Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and the Hamer D. and Phyllis C. Shafer Foundation.
Monica Yost helped produce this episode.