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Related: About this forumFanfare For the Common Man -- Aaron Copland
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There are other, faster versions. But today, it should be sad, stately.
cilla4progress
(24,588 posts)Thank you. Yes, poignant.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:31 PM - Edit history (1)
I play it any old time, but today I'm really feeling it. I love all Copland works, but this most of all.
cilla4progress
(24,588 posts)Play Copeland today to celebrate!
I have a tortured relationship with my patriotism. I was raised by critics, parents who saw America's hypocrisies and worked to relieve them. Volunteering with the Fair Housing Council. Marching against the war in Viet Nam. Yep. I'm proud of them. Gone many years now.
Lately I've been finding my love of country in its landscapes. Diverse. Vast. Unbelievably beautiful. America the Beautiful. Copeland's Rodeo.
But I also find my patriotism in America's artists! From Grandma Moses to Lin Manuel Miranda. Robert Frost to Maya Lin. James Baldwin. Johnny Cash. Stevie Wonder. Viola Davis. Jane Fonda. Martha Graham. Indigenous artists whose names are not widely known, sadly. All quintessentially American, of the American experience, heart and soul. Of this place.
Happy 4th all. This time next year.....
pwb
(11,205 posts)Fitting for the forth.
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ancianita
(35,812 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)I am also a huge fan of this one:
ancianita
(35,812 posts)I believe I posted that a while back in the Midday Music for Millennials series. It's fantastic.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)and Copland agreed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfare_for_the_Common_Man_(Emerson,_Lake_%26_Palmer_song)#Reactions_from_Copland
Edit: sorry about the broken text in the link. I tried it on other software and it doesn't break. Any suggestions?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)play Toccata.
Emerson Lake and Palmer had completed Toccata, a stand-out track on 1973s Brain Salad Surgery, before it occurred to anyone that they needed to ask permission to use the song. That led Keith Emerson on a quest.
After all, Toccata though it would ultimately include a wash of Emersons patented prog-era synthesized effects, and even a drum synthesizer from Carl Palmer had grown out of the fourth movement of Argentine composer Alberto Ginasteras First Piano Concerto. Upon contacting Ginasteras publishers, Emerson Lake and Palmer were politely informed that he did not allow adaptations of his compositions.
Emerson wasnt quite so easily deterred. I learned that Ginastera was still alive and living in Geneva, Emerson tells Broadway World, so I got his number and called him myself. The next day, I was on a plane to Geneva. I had a nice lunch with Alberto and his wife, and then I played the tape for him.
Its fair to say that Ginastera, who passed a decade later at 67, had never heard his work quite this way and Emerson, at first, was horrified by what he perceived to be the great composers disdain.
When it was over, he had this strange look on his face, Emerson adds. He looked like he was in pain! And he said something like, I cant remember the exact words but something like That is horrible! I thought, oh God, he hates it! And I was ready to go home. But his wife said to us: No, no, no, he says diabolical in a good way, like unbelievable! It turns out, he was actually overwhelmed by the recording. In the end, he loved it!