
This is one interesting release! McKay’s Epoch is a four-movement symphonic ballet dating from 1935, a sort of American equivalent to Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe,
This third disc in Naxos’ ongoing series devoted to George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) contains some excellent music. Fans of composers such as Vaughan Williams surely
George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) was known as the “Dean of Northwest composers”, having made a successful musical career in Seattle where he was professor of
Seattle-based composer George Frederick McKay (“The Dean of Northwest Composers”) is being celebrated as part of Naxos’ American Classics series. Among other musicians enlisted for