American Classics

[Beef Oven!]

Are they really American Classics, Beefy? Worth having taken to Bodrum instead of more DSCH quartets?
:-)

Classics is stretching it a bit!

I dipped into Apple Music on my MacBook. I've taken the hair shirt off for a few days.

[Lat-Literal]

Duke Ellington - Three Black Kings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhr1ZQ7vPeY
Leonard Bernstein - Meditation 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aUfC09Kkug
Elliott Carter - Changes for Starobin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5RI752K0C0
Frank Zappa - Greggery Peccary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRWAXGTVbiY

[Stanfordian]

Classics is stretching it a bit!

I dipped into Apple Music on my MacBook. I've taken the hair shirt off for a few days.

Hiya Beefy,

I agree. Just how many of these works contained on this thread are actually 'classics', very few I reckon.

[Beef Oven!]

Hiya Beefy,

I agree. Just how many of these works contained on this thread are actually 'classics', very few I reckon.

Luckily, we do not have to take the thread title too seriously!

I listened to the Hersch symphonies again this morning and really enjoyed them. The Gramophone review was very harsh and talked about recycled Berg and Mahler and other pejoratives.

Actually, I didn't listen to them on Apple Music, I had already ripped the CDs to my iTunes library.

[Lat-Literal]

Hiya Beefy,

I agree. Just how many of these works contained on this thread are actually 'classics', very few I reckon.

Oh.

American Classics!

Are these included?

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPL19IgsEHc

Philip Glass - Glassworks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Stu7h7Qup8

(Regrettably, the second comes with commercials)

[Demetrius]

Ned Rorem, Symphony No 1 & 2,

attractive, interesting, will have to listen to them again though to make up my mind completely.

On the downside, they managed to wear down my CD-Player, so I might have to look for a replacement

[Roehre]

Ned Rorem, Symphony No 1 & 2,

attractive, interesting, will have to listen to them again though to make up my mind completely.

On the downside, they managed to wear down my CD-Player, so I might have to look for a replacement

The Third (1958) is IMO the most attractive and most concise of the 3 Rorem Symphonies.
His strongest point however is his song writing -with excellent recordings available on Naxos.

[Pulcinella]

The Third (1958) is IMO the most attractive and most concise of the 3 Rorem Symphonies.
His strongest point however is his song writing -with excellent recordings available on Naxos.

Agreed!
Other good Rorem Naxos issues too.

PS! The Naxos issue of the three symphonies claimed to be the first release on CD, but the third had appeared before, in a recording by the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Maurice Abravanel, on Vox. When I wrote to Naxos to tell them, I got a reply from Jose Serebrier, the conductor on the Naxos issue, and a friend of Rorem, saying that the composer had been unaware of this (re)issue. I hope he got some backdated royalties!

[teamsaint]

Christopher Rouse Symphony # 3.

Can be heard in a performance by the NY Phil on Spotify, Youtube, and the NY Phil Website.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLmX1n7xmbNKiaFfZoq4u28br6iFtS2IKU&v=udN8T88WfXE

[Beef Oven!]

John Adams - Phrygian Gates
Ralph van Raat, Piano Naxos

[Lat-Literal]

William Henry Fry - Niagara Symphony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNe4IiuMhJ0

[Beef Oven!]

Joan Tower (b. 1938) - Made In America; Tambor; Concerto For Orchestra.
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin. Naxos.

[gradus]

There are some lovely songs by Barber. I listened to a couple this afternoon, The Daisies and The Crucifixion, the latter in a particularly beautiful version sung by Leontyne Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ja9XAs7Pw

[bluestateprommer]

There's a nice article about PDQ Bach / Peter Schickele from the New York Times, on the eve of the 50th Anniversary PDQ Bach Tribute Concert coming up in NYC at the end of this month and in honor of Schickele's 80th birthday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/arts/music/peter-schickele-brings-pdq-bach-back-to-the-stage.html

[Pulcinella]

There's a nice article about PDQ Bach / Peter Schickele from the New York Times, on the eve of the 50th Anniversary PDQ Bach Tribute Concert coming up in NYC at the end of this month and in honor of Schickele's 80th birthday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/ar...the-stage.html

The choral society I sing in is doing part of Haydn's The Seasons in summer; I'm afraid that having heard PDQ's The Seasonings I shall have to try hard to keep a straight face!