The Silent Generation - people born from the mid 1920s to the early 1940s. Time magazine coined the term in a November 1951 article entitled "The Younger Generation," and the name has remained ever since! The group was comparatively small because the financial insecurity of the 1930s and the war in the early 1940s - resulting in people having fewer children.
We’ll hear from a not so silent group born in 1938: composers Joan Tower, William Bolcom, Paul Chihara, John Corigliano, Frederic Rzewski, Charles Wuorinen, and John Harbison – on today’s What’s New!
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