●★ Aaron Kopland : Appalachian Spring - Ballet Suite(8) ★●
● Andante - movt.1
● Allegro - movt.2
● Moderato - movt.3
D a v i d M a t t h i e s - conducting &
De Pow University Simphony Orchestra
■ Aaron Kopland(1900-1990) - Appalachian Spring ■
● Aaron Kopland(1900-1990) ●
● Appalachian Spring is a ballet
score by Aaron
Copland that premiered in 1944 and has achieved widespread and
enduring popularity as an orchestral suite.
The ballet, scored for a thirteen-member chamber orchestra, was created upon commission of
choreographer and dancer Martha
Graham with funds from the Coolidge Foundation headed by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; it premiered on Monday,
October 30th, 1944, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, with Martha
Graham dancing the lead role. The set was designed by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu
Noguchi. Copland was awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his achievement. [1] [2] ● The
Composition Process In 1945, Copland rearranged the ballet work as an orchestral suite,
preserving most of the music. The ballet and orchestral work were well received.
The latter was credited as more important in popularizing the composer. In 1972,
Boosey
& Hawkes published a version of the suite fusing the structure of
the orchestral suite with the scoring of the original ballet: double string quartet, bass, flute,
clarinet, bassoon, and piano.
All three versions continue to be performed in full. Originally, Copland did not have a title for the work, referring to it simply
as Ballet for Martha. Shortly before the premiere, Graham suggested
Appalachian Spring, a phrase from a Hart
Crane poem, "The Bridge", even though it has no direct relation to
the story of the ballet: O Appalachian Spring! I gained the ledge; Copland was often amused when people told him he captured the beauty of the
Appalachians in his music, a fact he alluded to in an
interview with NPR's Fred Calland [3]. Furthermore, the
word "spring", usually taken in the title to refer to a season of the year,
denotes a source of water in the Crane poem. The story told is a spring celebration of the American pioneers of the 1800s
after building a new Pennsylvania farmhouse. Among the central characters
are a newlywed couple, a neighbor, a revivalist preacher and his followers. The orchestral suite is divided in eight sections, which Copland describes
as: The original ballet version is divided in 14 movements. The movements that do
not appear in the orchestral suite all occur between movement 7 and the last
movement. The seventh section, which is a set of variations on the Shaker melody Simple
Gifts (1848), is the most widely recognized section from the
ballet. Copland published independent arrangements of this section for band (1958) and orchestra (1967) titled Variations
on a Shaker Melody. Each variation takes the simple theme with changes
limited to key, accompaniment, register, dynamics, tone color, and tempo. The
second variation provides a lyrical treatment in the low register while the
third contrasts starkly in a fast staccato. The last two variations of this
section use only a part of the folk tune, first an extraction treated as a
pastoral variation and then as a majestic closing. In the ballet, but not the
suite, there is a lengthy intermediary section that moves away from the folk
tune preceding the final two variations.
문헌자료 - WIKIPEDIA 제공 ■
Steep, inaccessible smile that
eastward bends
And northward reaches in that violet wedge
Of
Adirondacks!● Storyline of the
ballet
● Form of the piece
● Notes
● References
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