When it comes to American music, it doesn't get much more American than this recording of four works by William Schuman with Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. It starts with Schuman's cheerful American Festival Overture, continues with his almost-but-not-quite variations on hymn tunes by William Billings (New England Triptych), continues with his almost-but-not-quite sober orchestration of Ives' Variations on "America," and ends with his last, and by all means best, of his symphonies, the Tenth, ...
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When it comes to American music, it doesn't get much more American than this recording of four works by William Schuman with Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. It starts with Schuman's cheerful American Festival Overture, continues with his almost-but-not-quite variations on hymn tunes by William Billings (New England Triptych), continues with his almost-but-not-quite sober orchestration of Ives' Variations on "America," and ends with his last, and by all means best, of his symphonies, the Tenth, subtitled "American Music." The tunes, the rhythms, the colors, the shapes, and most of all the spirit of the music is wholly and completely American: full of enthusiasm, idealism, romanticism, and most of all with the reckless energy of America at the first peak of its power.Schuman's orchestral music in particular, like American orchestral music in general, could wish for no better advocate than Leonard Slatkin. Although not as ebullient as Bernstein or elegant as Schippers,...
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