© 2025 NPR Illinois
The Capital's Community & News Service since 1975
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Thanks for donating to go past the Spring Drive goal.

You can do even more by signing up for
ProtectMyPublicMedia.org. Calls make a difference.

Schumann's 'Spring Symphony' Is Almost Like Getting Outside And Living 'Your Normal Life'

Music opinionator Fran Hoepfner (@franhoepfner) joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to discuss how 19th-century German composer Robert Schumann’s “Spring Symphony” resonates for her during this season of the coronavirus crisis. Hoepfner writes that it’s the perfect music to listen to if “you’re cooped up inside.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.