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5 days ago · Featured works include Appalachian Spring performed by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Our Town with Copland himself conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. Bill tells the story of Copland’s trip to Mexico that inspired his symphonic movement El Salón México , and we will listen to the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard ...
3 days ago · Copland wrote El Salón México between 1932 and 1936, which met with a popular acclaim that contrasted the relative obscurity of most of his previous works. Inspiration for this work came from Copland's vivid recollection of visiting the "Salon Mexico" dancehall where he witnessed a more intimate view of Mexico's nightlife. [143]
2 days ago · Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, one of the best pieces of classical music for Independence Day, exists in four versions: the original ballet score dating from 1944 (13-player complete),...
1 day ago · The outstanding Belgian chamber music ensemble Oxalys dedicates itself here to three American masterpieces in the original chamber music instrumentation: from the great American classic Aaron Copland with his ballet Appalachian Spring to the mythical Shaker Loops by minimal music icon John Adams (here in the original, rarely heard string septet ...
6 days ago · Sunday, September 8, 2024 at 4:00pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock, NY. Works by Wolfgang Mozart ( Kegelstatt Trio ), Aaron Copland ( Piano Quartet ), Viet Cuong ( Wax and Wire [Copland House CULTIVATE Commission]), and Gabriel Faure ( Piano Quartet No. 1 ).
5 days ago · Zubin Mehta's Appalachian Spring originally appeared in the two-LP set The Fourth of July!, issued in tribute to the U.S. Bicentennial; it's well recorded, in late-Decca analog style, and it's useful for a fine Ives Second Symphony.
2 days ago · 22:00 SPECIAL Sugarloaf Mountain, an Appalachian Gathering with Apollo’s Fire – Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s Baroque Orchestra; Jeannette Sorrell, Founder and Music Director, Performed at St. Paul Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, OH
