Word: copland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BOSTON SYMPHONY OCHESTRA. Sanders Theatre concert. Beethoven, Symphony No. 5; Copland, Tender Land; Mozart, Prague Symphony...
...Boston Symphony, the first U.S. orchestra to tour Russia (in 1956), and for its Russian-born or Russian-speaking musicians. During rehearsals, the Russians filed into the side balcony of Symphony Hall, leaned intently over the railing, and watched Conductor Charles Munch. Kabalevsky and Composer Aaron Copland (who rehearsed his own suite from The Tender Land) alternate on the podium...
...into the light for the first time since he disgraced himself by winning the Nobel Prize for literature, Russia's Novelist Boris Pasternak listened to a performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Earlier in the day, Conductor Leonard Bernstein had led the players in passages from Aaron Copland's suite, Billy the Kid, and Dmitry Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, finding in the two compositions an off-the-cuff evidence that Russian and U.S. cultures share a similar sense of humor and a "touching naivete" and frankness, "although our political differences do not always allow...
Lenny gave them two programs to remember; Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven and on to the U.S. moderns, with Aaron Copland's high-stepping Billy the Kid and George Gershwin's swelling, Turkey-fresh Rhapsody in Blue. Both nights he yielded to thunderous ovations, played encores till way past midnight. Even after the players had left the stage, spectators refused to budge, clamored for more. Only when Lenny was seen dashing for the exit (where he was swamped by autograph seekers) did the Turks go home...
Archibald took several sections considerably faster than Copland himself used to, and in the process introduced quite a few wrong notes. But his over-all concept of the work's structure and impetus yielded a more unified result than when the composer played it. This is achievement enough for a young pianist...