The Nashville Symphony has won considerable acclaim for its recordings of American orchestral music. This is unsurprising, in a sense, for musicians in the group by virtue of their location in a popular-music capital, have been immersed in vernacular American music for a long time -- and so much American classical music is nourished by popular roots. This is true for few composers more than for Leonard Bernstein, and the Nashville musicians do well with an intriguing Bernstein ballet program here. There are plenty of other ...
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The Nashville Symphony has won considerable acclaim for its recordings of American orchestral music. This is unsurprising, in a sense, for musicians in the group by virtue of their location in a popular-music capital, have been immersed in vernacular American music for a long time -- and so much American classical music is nourished by popular roots. This is true for few composers more than for Leonard Bernstein, and the Nashville musicians do well with an intriguing Bernstein ballet program here. There are plenty of other recordings to choose from in the case of Fancy Free, an exuberant youthful work drenched in jazz and blues, but defining harmonic realms that do not belong to either one. Pianist Steve Kummer does not quite do justice to the sharp jazz accents of the score, but a plus here is the relaxed performance of the original Bernstein popular song "Big Stuff" at the beginning of the ballet (Bernstein specifies that it should be sounding from a jukebox as the curtain goes up). Vocalist Abby...
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