Appalachian Spring : Rodeo : Billy the Kid : Fanfare for the Common Man
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Title:
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Appalachian Spring : Rodeo : Billy the Kid : Fanfare for the Common Man |
Otros títulos:
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Appalachian Spring and other Orchestral Works Primavera Apalache y otras Obras Orquestales |
Intérprete/ Colaborador:
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Aaron Copland; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Stephen Gunzenhauser |
Código CDU:
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Cop.03 |
Forma Musical:
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Suites (Orchestra), Ballets, Fanfares |
Abstract:
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The music from Copland's Pulitzer Prize-winning ballet Appalachian Spring is better known in the orchestral suite the composer extracted in 1945 in response to the work's instant popularity. The Suite both expands on and excises the music, in the end eliminating about 10 or 11 minutes from the approximately 35-minute length of the original score. Many listeners may be familiar with the ballet version for full orchestra that the composer made in 1954 at the behest of conductor Eugene Ormandy. In the concert hall the original chamber orchestra scoring here may be the least often performed of the three versions, though it is still used in productions of the ballet.
The ballet story is set in 1830 Pennsylvania and centers on springtime celebrations relating to the completion of a farmhouse built for a young couple planning to wed. The music opens in a somber, almost athematic manner, the mood ethereal and sleepy, as if spring is slowly taking hold, winter's snow still melting. Suddenly the ... |
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