Though this piece is labeled a symphony, the piano has such a prominent part that it can just as easily be categorized as a concerto. The work was inspired by W.H. Auden’s poem “The Age of Anxiety” and is structured in a similar manner. The movements are labeled thus:
Part One:
a) The Prologue
b) T...
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety was written by Leonard Bernstein.
Leonard Bernstein released Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety on Fri Apr 08 1949.
In his program note, Bernstein wrote:
W.H. Auden’s fascinating and hair-raising poem “The Age of Anxiety: a Baroque Eclogue” began immediately to affect me lyrically when I first read it in the summer of 1947. From that moment the composition of a symphony based on “The Age of Anxiety” acquired an...