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Fanfare For the Common Man -- Aaron Copland (Original Post) ancianita Jul 2020 OP
One of my favorites. cilla4progress Jul 2020 #1
Mine, too. ancianita Jul 2020 #2
What a great idea, ancianita, cilla4progress Jul 2020 #4
Very nice. pwb Jul 2020 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author stopbush Jul 2020 #5
So sorry. Fast typing. Will correct immediately. ancianita Jul 2020 #6
I love this composition, but Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #7
Absolutely! ancianita Jul 2020 #8
ELP had to ask Copland for permission to play this... SwissTony Jul 2020 #9
They also asked for and got permission (and approval) to Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #10

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
2. Mine, too.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:38 AM
Jul 2020

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)
4. What a great idea, ancianita,
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:57 AM
Jul 2020

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.....

Response to ancianita (Original post)

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
8. Absolutely!
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:21 PM
Jul 2020

I believe I posted that a while back in the Midday Music for Millennials series. It's fantastic.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
9. ELP had to ask Copland for permission to play this...
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 05:08 AM
Jul 2020

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)
10. They also asked for and got permission (and approval) to
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:04 AM
Jul 2020

play Toccata.

Emerson Lake and Palmer had completed “Toccata,” a stand-out track on 1973’s 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 Emerson’s patented prog-era synthesized effects, and even a drum synthesizer from Carl Palmer — had grown out of the fourth movement of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera’s “First Piano Concerto.” Upon contacting Ginastera’s publishers, Emerson Lake and Palmer were politely informed that he did not allow adaptations of his compositions.

Emerson wasn’t 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.”

It’s 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 composer’s 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 can’t 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!”

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