Syracuse Symphony Orchestra; Aaron Copland Concert - Part 1

Don't do it. From like a lot of Tory I'm in Syracuse New York this is Henry Fogel welcoming you to another

Syracuse symphony broadcast concert. Our guest conductor is the great American composer Aaron Copeland. And he will conduct a program of music by Walton there Leo's Schubert and of course himself. You'll hear William what was Portsmouth point overtures barely owes Royal Hunt and storm on the Trojans. And Schubert Symphony Number five in B-flat. Then you'll hear Aaron Copeland on the second part of the concert conducting two of his own works. El Salamanca and Appalachian Spring. William Walton's Portsmouth point is an interesting work to us

today because it is the earliest existing orchestral piece we have of his. Written in 1925 or half a century ago and dedicated to sixth grade cess soon it was first heard the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival and in one thousand twenty six. It gets its title from a print by Thomas Rowlandson. According to that print Portsmouth was a place where there was evidently never a dull moment a money lender on one side of the drawing a tavern on the other. They frame the masts of ships and the on shore scene of people dancing singing sprawling against barrels of liquor Walton's overture of course isn't program music but it without any letup at all and with an abundance of syncopation across rhythms it easily depicts the mood of that earthiness of that picture in the animation of that picture. Concert master Eugene Altshuler has come out into the orchestra and in just a

moment. Aaron Copeland the great American composer often referred to as the dean of American composers and certainly the most popular figure in American music of the people who have devoted their lives almost expect exclusively to composing. We'll make his way to the podium here at like an auditorium. And here he is. Aaron Copeland to conduct the Portsmouth point overture by. So William Walton. If.

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The Portsmouth point over tour William Walton the Syracuse Symphony conducted by Alan Copeland here at like an auditorium in Syracuse New York. Next on the program as the Royal Hunt and storm from late 2010 by barely was late toy. Barely 0 0 his own libretto after Virgil is without any question merely as major

work. Originally cast as one work and then divided by barely OHS into two operas. He called it a poem lyric. It occupied Berlioz for three years from eight hundred fifty five to eight hundred fifty eight and it is only in our own time that performances of the entire work is barely as conceived it had been given. The Royal Hunt and storm picturesque well-proportioned is a study in contrasts between serenity and chaos. It was conceived as a staged interlude with mixed chorus. However there Leo's said at one point in case the theater is not large enough to permit the grand an animated business of this interlude I think it's impossible to retain chorus women to run about the stage with disabled hair and chorus men dressed as Fonzie satyrs to indulge in grotesque gambles.

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by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Aaron Copeland our guest conductor on this concert. I misquoted the world because of the Russian trying to get finished before the music started I. Left a quote dangling and I'm afraid slightly misquoted barely I was about that piece I had pointed out that he had written the work for a scene in late why I would mix the chorus. And he then said in case the theater is not large enough to permit of the grand scale an animated business of this interlude. And if it is impossible to obtain chorus women to run about the stage with dishevelled hair and chorus men dressed as Fonz and satyrs to indulge in grotesque gambles. If the firemen are afraid of fire if the machinist's are afraid of water the director afraid of everything. Then this interlude should be wholly suppressed. Besides for a good performance a powerful orchestra is necessary such

as is seldom found in the opera house anyway. There are LEO's of course a wonderful writer and a very wry sense of humor. The next work on this part of the concert indeed the last work on this first part of the concert. Is the Symphony Number five in B-flat of Schubert completed in 1816 and played in 1816 by an amateur orchestra conducted by a violinist Otto Hopper Vic The fifth is considered today to be the finest of Schubert's early symphonies. It is scored without trumpets without side drums or without clarinet and it has therefore rather light gentle character. The first movement is a pert Allegro. The second is probably one of the finest slow movements in any orchestral work its a lovely Andante con moto of just. Sheer lyrical beauty and tranquility.

The third movement is a delightful minuet and the finale which looks to some degree in the direction of Haydn is a simple but joyful work. The stage here at Lincoln auditorium in Syracuse is being totally reset. As the rather gargantuan orchestra required by the Berlioz Royal Hunt and storm is now reduced to the much smaller rock Istra that Schubert requires in this fifth symphony. Lots of extra brass and percussion in the belly O's and a minimal amount of brass percussion and even woodwinds in the Schubert. But in just a moment we expect Aaron Copeland to be making his way from the stage right backstage area on to the center of the stage for this performance of the Symphony

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Yeah. Alan Copeland conducting the Syracuse symphony orchestra in the Symphony Number Five and beat for 18. Years bowing distinguished American composer.

On the first part of the Syracuse symphony concert you heard with ports with point Roy from the Symphony Number Five. On the second part of this broadcast concert by the Syracuse symphony you'll hear works by

Aaron Copeland under his direction to compositions Appalachian Spring and.