Signature Symphony ends season with tribute to Aaron Copland

The "Appalachian Spring" Suite is really a musical collage -- sweeping, expansive washes of sound set against short, spiky melodies, parlor ballads and abstract sounds, that seem to pit sections of the orchestra against each other, until the clarinet's intonation of the "Simple G...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News
Main Author Watts, James D
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 15.04.2013
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Music
Musical performances
Orchestras
Sound
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Summary:The "Appalachian Spring" Suite is really a musical collage -- sweeping, expansive washes of sound set against short, spiky melodies, parlor ballads and abstract sounds, that seem to pit sections of the orchestra against each other, until the clarinet's intonation of the "Simple Gifts" hymn brings everything together in a powerful, surging sound.