The "Pastoral" Symphony will probably get my vote when QXR calls for a favorite summer-evoking composition, some Wednesday in June or July.

Th eight citations of the Beethoven: SYmphony #6 (Pastoral) as reminiscent of spring are from listeners who understand that content is more important than whatever words happen to be in a title.

Love you for vivaldi

Vivaldi's Spring -- oh boy, one of the most overplayed pieces out there. Sure, it's nice, but c'mmon, play something that we haven't heard a zillion times before. Sheesh, WQXR, are you trying to bore us to death??? Listen to Ezra Pound's advice and "make it new."

I have loved every choice of Walt and Stokowski for "Fantasia" since I was seven, including "Rite of Spring", but the music that Schumann composed when he was played by Paul Henreid in "Song of Love" when I was eleven gets chosen this spring for that kind of love.

Which one is the longest playing?

Something different please! Play the Schumann, if not Beethoven's Pastoral symphony.

How about something different? Play the Schumann!

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Totally agree with Marie M. from Manhattan's comments on the piece.

Robert Schumann for sure, he has been under appreciated even by my favorite
radio station until recently.

For me, the Vivaldi evokes the the wonderful spirit of rebirth of Spring, each day bringing a new return of life!!

@lynn: you're right! -
i vote for schumann because he is in music what lenz and büchner etc. for the written poems still are... -
(but somebuddy forgot SCHUBERT!)
d.

Good Morning.

Unquestionably, I vote for the Schumann! Nothing evokes spring like the Spring Symphony.

Vivaldi! Now and always. Viva Vivaldi!

Rite of spring to awaken us on the gloomy day

Please vivaldi its spring

Viva Vivaldi!!!!!

I vote for Schumann. He was the quintessential romantic composer. And when I think of spring I think of romantc love. Let's go for the Spring Symphony!

Vivaldi Four Seasons is my choice on this gloomy April day. The birds will cheer us and get us thru the gloom.

regards, F Russo, Westbury NY

Well, if the question is "...which piece best evokes Spring for you" I'd have to go with the Schumann, even though it's a wasted vote against those 2 great warhorses. Frankly, I'm hearing a little too much Vivaldi from you folks, especially in the morning, and I have to wonder about anyone picking RoS for their Spring evocation.

of your offerings, the only choice is schuman! i cannot listen to yet another 'sacre' and vivaldi seems so recently played.

very interesting comments and agree with most of then - in particular, you often leave out some music i would have included in your choices - but the first music that sprang to mind was Vivaldi followed by Beethoven's 6th and i do love Haydn's "The Seasons"

You are leaving out the most appropriate spring song for the current weather: Frank Loesser's song "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year." The song comes from Robert Siodmak's 1944 film "Christmas Holiday."

What about Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring?

Vivaldi...the true passage to Spring.

I'll go for Schumann, just to vote for the underdog. He's a wonderful composer and under-appreciated. Although I remember when Vivaldi was the underdog in the 1950s.

I voted for the Vivaldi, but would love to hear beethoven's 6th, truly spring evoking. We sure do need it!

None of your choices! But William from Upper West Side comes the closest in naming Haydn. When will the Master ever get his overdue recognition from QXR for his VOCAL output? "Spring", the opening part of "The Seasons", is as rich in choral, solo and instrumental melody as any oratorio in the repertoire. And it bursts at the seems with the evocation of spring!

The Schuman's verve conveys the excitement of a new season to me. However, my dog, who gets worked up over the first dead bird of spring on the lawn, votes for the Stravinsky.

I have to say "none of the above". I was working in Hong Kong from 1973 to 1976 and came across a cassette tape in the China Products store tilted "Early Spring in the South". The title song is my favorite, and I play it each year. It is based on an old Chinese poem, set to violin and piano. I do not have a digital version, or I would send it to you to broadcast during your Spring has Sprung program.

Honestly I don't particularly like any of the choices, though Vivaldi would have gotten my vote, I'd much prefer Beethoven's 6th The Pastoral, maybe that would nudge Mother Nature into bringing us a real Spring.

Beethoven's 6th popped into my head too, but I'll settle for a Russian spring!

Stravinsky, please!!!

I would ordinarily cast my vote for Vivaldi, but yesterday and last night, and again this morning, the weather forces me to go with dinosaurs and Stravinsky. The "right" of spring, indeed.

I voted for the Schumann today, although what really evokes spring for me is the first movement of Mahler's Symphony #1.
I also have to say that even though I do not like the Stravinsky, I loved the comment by Diane from Tennesee, and I completely agree!

Greetings, I vote for The Rite of Spring.
Recently I viewed a movie from Netflix, "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" and, of course, the "Rite" was an important part of the film. A few years ago BAM put on the Rite of Spring including the ballet, terrific.

Best wishes, John Goodwin

The delicious breaking forth of Stravinsky's "Rites" is right for me on a leaf-popping day like today.

For me, a very personal choice that bears no obvious direct relation to spring: Haydn's Symphony #88 in G major. To my ear, there is something very fresh, renewed in that wonderful piece of music. Otherwise, another personal spring favorite of mine: Dvorak's Symphony #8, also in G major.

I have voted for Vivaldi. It's my choice in terms of sheer joy. The Rite is a great work with its dark side. The Schuman is wonderful too but I am a fool for the Vivaldi.

Beethoven's 6th? You could play this everyday as far as I'm concerned.

Le Sacre du Printemps, please - it's been that kind of Spring so far.

From that list, the Vivaldi....

Let's go with the Stravinsky. Perhaps some of these crazy Republicans will hear it and think that the Obama Death Squad is after them.

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is my vote.

My vote is for Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." It offers a more nuanced musical depiction of the difficulties, highs and lows of the Season. Not just the blossoming, lyrical ideal of spring, but also the explosive, reluctant death of what came before and what waits for us in the time when we want the hope of new life and have to accept some of the turbulence and uncertainty of change.

I think the Primavera section of Ottotino Respighi's Il Trittico Botticelliano would be appropriate, I want to hear Stravinsky's masterpice.

DEAR MS WOOLSEY/"MIDGE":
IT'S AN EXTREMELY PLEASURE OF MINE TO CONTACT U!!!!! UR ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL!
ANYWAY! I THINK:
VIVALDI'S "VIER JAHRZEITEN" (SPELLING - OOOOOPS!!!!!)/"FRUHLING"/"SPRING" IS APPROPRIATE! EVEN IF JEFF, MADE A COMMENT ABOUT "THE BIRDS" CHIRPPING IN THE BACKGROUND R ANNOYING! THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF THE PIECE.
THANX! ROBERT B. "BOBBY' ROSENBERG
PS: ENJOY UR DAY!!!!! 8>)

Vivaldi, please!

Britten's "Spring Symphony." Definitely.

You could have offered Beethoven's Pastoral or Copeland's Appalachian Spring (although I think that one relates to a spring of water, but Spring-like nevertheless). I look forward to summer...

Besides the great selections already mentioned, perhaps Goldmark's "In Springtime" Overture?

If you have time for a short beauty I recommend the lovely Sibelius Spring Song opus 16

None of the above.
Beethoven: Symphony #6. For sure!