Cynics might claim that works given the Pulitzer Prize for Music tend to fall promptly out of the repertory, and indeed that's what happened with the three works on this release, part of the Oregon Symphony's fine "Aspects of America" series. All were winners of the prize; Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 4, Op. 34 ("Requiem") won the second Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1944; Walter Piston followed with his Symphony No. 7 in 1961, and Morton Gould with Stringmusic in 1995, and all by 2020 qualified as rarities. In these live ...
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Cynics might claim that works given the Pulitzer Prize for Music tend to fall promptly out of the repertory, and indeed that's what happened with the three works on this release, part of the Oregon Symphony's fine "Aspects of America" series. All were winners of the prize; Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 4, Op. 34 ("Requiem") won the second Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1944; Walter Piston followed with his Symphony No. 7 in 1961, and Morton Gould with Stringmusic in 1995, and all by 2020 qualified as rarities. In these live performances from 2017 and 2018, they emerge as a cohesive group worthy of rediscovery, even if Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall is no match for the Philadelphia Academy of Music, where Piston's symphony was premiered by Eugene Ormandy, and for which it was tailor-made. All three of the works show Aaron Copland's influence, but it is least apparent in the most Romantic of the works, Hansen's Symphony No. 4, which generally evokes rather than quotes the musical material of the...
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