America: Variations on a Theme
Americana
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1h 48m
COPLAND Suite from ๐๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ
GERSHWIN ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ญ๐ถ๐ฆ
ELLINGTON ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐-๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏโ
COPLAND Suite from ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ
This program of three quintessentially American composers paints a musical portrait of the country as they knew it: full of promises, tensions, and fraught beauty. In conversation, pianist Marc-Andrรฉ Hamelin reflects on his early exposure to jazz and his approach to interpreting the music of Gershwin and Ellington, and conductor David Robertson considers each piece a lens for the nation itself. The frontier austerity of ๐๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ and the bustling urban energy of ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ญ๐ถ๐ฆ capture the diversity of 20th-century American landscapes, while cultural landscapes emerge from Ellingtonโs dream of a brighter future and Coplandโs groping postwar lament.
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