This selection of orchestral works would be ideal for the listener who knows Aaron Copland's most familiar pieces -- Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo -- and wants to explore other characteristic but less familiar works by the composer. These four works, written between 1925 and 1948, are firmly in the composer's immediately recognizable populist vein of Americana: jazzy, loose-limbed, evocative, and spacious. Music for the Theatre, one of his first pieces to incorporate elements of jazz, was considered ...
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This selection of orchestral works would be ideal for the listener who knows Aaron Copland's most familiar pieces -- Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo -- and wants to explore other characteristic but less familiar works by the composer. These four works, written between 1925 and 1948, are firmly in the composer's immediately recognizable populist vein of Americana: jazzy, loose-limbed, evocative, and spacious. Music for the Theatre, one of his first pieces to incorporate elements of jazz, was considered radically avant-garde at the time of its premiere in 1925, but from the perspective of the twenty-first century, its mild bluesiness is appealing, but hardly provocative. Quiet City is one of Copland's most popular works, a gently atmospheric tone poem with prominent solos for trumpet and English horn. Copland was a master of film scoring and he culled the five movements of Music for Movies from his scores for The City, Our Town, and Of Mice and Men. It's a rarely heard suite, but...
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