Aaron Copland with Samuel Barber and Gian-Carlo Menotti, not a dissonant note between them.
Taken in 1945 at Bernardsville, NJ, by Copland’s friend Victor Kraft.
We’ve been given to understand that tonight’s Lebrecht…
From the last Lebrecht Album of the Week…
Pablo Casals conducts a gloriously old-fashioned 1971 performance…
The Chinese-Australian pair of comedy fiddlers have called…
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As late as 1972 Menotti was still driving a classic 1953-ish Packard, if I recall. I sang in a staged cantata of his in the long-gone Temple University Music Festival at Ambler, a summer residence for the Pittsburgh symphony back in the day. Menotti drove down from Mount Kisco to take charge of the production. (This was also about the time the Temple U choirs premiered Barber’s last large scale work “The Lovers” with Ormandy and the Philadelphia.)
COPLAND: “I’m sorry Samuel, but it says right here that I’m more original than you, old boy.”
Lotta cramming going on I’m sure…
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