NI 5267
Total Playing Time 66.45
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Copland
Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo, Four Piano Blues
Piano Variations, Old American Songs
Alan Marks
Aaron Copland is a unique figure bestriding twentieth-century American music. Other composers have been highly regarded for their individual achievements: George Gershwin for his versatile melodic gift; Charles Ives and Elliott Carter for their radicalism and alignment with the European avant-garde; Leonard Bernstein for his protean creativity. Copland himself has avoided the genre of the musical, and neither of his two operas, The Second Hurricane and The Tender Land, has been an unqualified success. Yet his individuality touches so many aspects of the native art as to make him the truly representative voice of American music.
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