Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Sometimes a Song

"Songs My Mother Taught Me"

Antonin Dvorak

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Debra Esolen
Aug 30, 2025
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Sometimes a Song is not just a song, but an opus, or, in the case of today’s selection, the most famous part of an opus, a song which has reached the ears of people who might not know anything else from the composer’s great body of work. Have you noticed that when we speak of classical music, we often are thinking big? Not just big, but BIGGG: symphon…

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