(DescriptionĪdapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) Description Aaron Copland talks about a major musical innovation of the 1920's - the Music in the 20s was produced for NET by WGBH, Boston's educational stationĪnd was originally recorded in black and white on videotape.
Titles, each half-hour illustrates a special phase or trend. As is suggested by the individual episode Copland's comments and anecdotes on the peopleĪnd the music of the period. Each of the 12-half hour episodes is divided between live The Cambridge Festival Orchestra is guest orchestraįor the series. Members of the Juilliard String Quartet, soprano Bethany Beardslee, baritoneĭonald Gramm, violinist Tossy Spivakovsky, controversial avant-garde pianistĭavid Tudor and others. Including the great singer Lotte Lenya, harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, the
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Acting as series hostĪnd frequently as conductor, Copland is joined by outstanding guest soloist In Music in the 20s, America's most renowned composer, AaronĬopland, pays tribute to this remarkable era of music. Milhaud, Hindemith, Ives, Bloch, and others that were part of a vastĬreative explosion - an explosion which set the pace in series music for theĬentury. In music, it was Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Satie, Names of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Stein, and Eliot were being heard for In the NET Microfiche) Series Description The 1920's was an era charged with creative activity. Suedios in Paris, based on a story by French novelist Blaise Cendrars and With Darius Milhaud, "the man who really understood what jazz was all aboutīest." Milhaud wrote his "The Creation of the World" in 1923 for the Ballet Copland has chosen to illustrate the trend
He tracesīack its first appearances to the turn of the century, compositions of Of the program Copland seeks the reason why jazz, its mood, its new rhythms,Īnd its new dry sound appealed to the composers of the twenties. Performance of Milhaud's "The Creation of the World." During the first part Here Copland conducts the Cambridge Festival Orchestra in a complete
Stravinsky and Darius Milhaud, rather than Americans, were the innovators. Introduction of jazz elements in serious music. Episode Description Aaron Copland talks about a major innovation of the 1920's - the
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