Copland Quiet City Nacole Palmer, soprano Debi Wong, alto John Tiranno, tenor Daniel Mobbs, bass The Riverside Choral Society and the Riverside Choral Society Orchestra conducted by Patrick Gardner ... Read the Program Notes by John Shepard for this concert.

Quiet City is naturally better known but again trumpet and cor anglais are to the fore.

Stephen Taylor is the cor anglais player here and I assume he was in Music for the Theatre as well.

Listen to audio podcasts and more in the BSO Media Center! Oboe, Orchestra, Strings, Trumpet, English Horn, Score sheet music book by Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Boosey & Hawkes at Sheet Music Plus: The World Largest Selection of Sheet Music. The play told the story of two brothers, one of whom rejected his heritage in an effort to conform to the business world, while the other maintained … Gates open at 5:30pm. A Copland … It was dedicated to Ralph Hawkes. As a Copland fan, I expected Copland, especially when the CD is labeled Copland. The orchestral suite, originally arranged by Copland for the Houston Symphony Orchestra, lasts approximately 20–25 minutes and …

Suite from Appalachian Spring. In his program notes, Copland explains that A Lincoln Portrait is divided into three main parts.

Top right corner signed by Copland: "For Roger Voisin who plays this like a dream. The strings turn lush when needed; no astringent aspersions are cast. Copland added the cor anglais to the suite partly to give it more colour and partly to provide rests for the trumpet soloist. The play focused on two main characters: A young Jewish boy, awestruck by the steely modernity of his city environment, yet still profoundly in touch with his own feelings and heritage; and a poor, dispossessed, and lonely man, for whom the city provides no refuge. Program Notes Audio; COPLAND - Quiet City: GRIEG - Piano Concerto COPLAND - Symphony No.

by Phillip Huscher . The Morton Gould piece is worth a mention, but I'm conflicted by Morton, whom I've always considered a better orchestrator than composer of original music. Quiet City is a composition for trumpet, cor anglais, and string orchestra by Aaron Copland.

Quiet City is a play by Irwin Shaw and a well-known composition for trumpet and English horn by Aaron Copland.

There is related media for this performance available. Copland composed Appalachian Springin 1943–44 as a ballet for Martha Graham, on a commission from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. Copland reserves the famous phrase from the Gettysburg Address -- "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" -- for the work's climactic ending, maximizing the impact of the words. When that message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer will access our e-mail provider's server to retrieve the pixel tag file, allowing us to record and store, along with your e-mail address, the date and time the recipient viewed the … Born November 14, 1900, Brooklyn, New York. Aaron Copland’s Quiet City begins with primal open intervals (fourths and fifths) which seem to emerge from a vast, wide-open landscape. In fact, the remaining 45 minutes of recordings on the CD are from five additional composers. "Quiet City" is a better piece than most people realize - if the trumpet isn't just right it falls flat - suffice it to say this performance doesn't.