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Saturday, January 08, 2005
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  • Copland Conducts Copland - Sony #42429
    Copland Conducts Copland (Sony #42429)

    Copland Conducts Copland

    “The Red Pony” Suite was arranged from Aaron Copland’s score for his fourth Hollywood commission, a 1948 movie based on the John Steinbeck novel.

Per Tengstrand and Shan-shan Sun make up the recently formed Tengstrand-Sun Piano Duo. The pair won first prize at the 2003 Murray Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition and have since performed worldwide, including recitals at Merkin Hall in New York City. This evening we hear them in Rachmaninoff’s 1900-01 Suite No. 2, Op. 17, a work begun during a trip to Italy, which may have inspired the rousing fourth-movement tarantella. Jaromir Weinberger was born this day in 1896, in Prague. His most successful work was the opera “Schwanda the Bagpiper,” from which we hear the Polka and fugue, a polytonal parody and concert favorite, Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Aaron Copland said of his music for “The Red Pony”: “Although some of the melodies . . . may sound rather folklike, they are actually mine. There are no quotations of folklore anywhere in the work.” The music evokes the films coming-of-age story of a boy living and dreaming on a California ranch. Copland himself conducts the New Philharmonia in this evening’s presentation. Jaime Laredo is both violinist and conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as we bring you Dvorák’s Romance in F Minor.

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