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Copland - Quiet City, Clarinet Concerto etc | Nimbus NI2522

Copland - Quiet City, Clarinet Concerto etc

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI2522

Barcode: 0710357252228

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 5th January 2009

Contents

Artists

William Blount (clarinet)
Orchestra of St Luke’s

Conductor

Dennis Russell Davies

Works

Copland, Aaron

Clarinet Concerto
Music for Movies
Music for the Theatre
Quiet City

Artists

William Blount (clarinet)
Orchestra of St Luke’s

Conductor

Dennis Russell Davies

About

As a young man studying composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the early twenties, Aaron Copland wondered, "If there is a French sounding music and a German sounding music, why not an American sound?" The sure way to achieve this seemed to be with jazz. One of Copland's first pieces after his return to the United States from France in 1923 was a jazzy Piano Concerto. It caused a sensation at Symphony Hall in Boston when the great Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky conducted the premiere with Copland as pianist. Copland wrote in his autobiography, "It may be difficult to imagine today that the very idea of jazz in a concert hall was piquant in the twenties, but it seems that any piece based on jazz was assured of a mild succès de scandale ..."

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