wimpel69
04-05-2014, 09:06 AM
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Three RCA CDs with orchestral works and film music by Aaron Copland, conducted by
one its finest interpreters, Leonard Slatkin. The collection includes:
Symphony No.1 (for Organ and Orchestra)
Short Symphony (= Symphony No.2)
Symphony No.3
Dance Symphony
Music for a Great City
Orchestral Variations
The Red Pony Suite
The Heiress Suite
Music for Movies
Our Town
Prairie Journal (Music for Radio)
Music Composed by
Aaron Copland
Played by the
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
Leonard Slatkin
"Leonard Slatkin is one of the world's leading conductors, noted for his performances of
American, Russian, and British music, and Haydn symphonies. He was born to a famous
musical family. His father was Felix Slatkin (1915-1963), a Saint Louis-born violinist who
rose to become a film score and light music conductor, and founder of the Hollywood
String Quartet. Leonard's mother was the excellent cello soloist Eleanor Aller, cellist of
the quartet. Between them, they trained their boy in violin, viola, piano, and conducting.
He attended Indiana University (1962) and Los Angeles City College (1963), and studied
with Walter Susskind (music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra) at the
Aspen Music School in 1964. He then attended Juilliard School in New York where he
studied conducting with Jean Morel, graduating in 1968 with a B. Mus. Degree. In that
same year he became assistant conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra under
Susskind, and was promoted to Associate Conductor in 1971, Associate Principal
Conductor in 1974, and Principal Guest Conductor in 1974. During this period he
showed his career-long commitment to musical training for young people by founding
the Saint Louis Youth Symphony in 1969 and conducting it. In 1974 he made his European
debut as a guest conductor with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and made
his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C. in 1978. He was
Artistic Adviser of the New Orleans Philharmonic (1977-1980). In 1979 he founded
the Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest series and served as its director for ten
years. In 1979 he was appointed Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony,
beginning a highly successful seventeen-year tenure including five triumphal
international tours and many recordings with Vox, EMI, and RCA records. With
the Saint Louis orchestra he conducted a notable series of discs of music by American
symphonic masters including Bernstein, Copland, Schuman, and Piston. He also
has recorded the complete Vaughan Williams and Elgar symphonies, a series of Haydn
symphonies, and works of Britten, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, among many others.
He has also recorded with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia
(London), the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the
Bavarian Radio Orchestra, totaling well over a hundred releases. He has been
nominated for Grammy awards more than fifty times and won four times. In 1990
he became music director of the Great Woods Performing Arts Center in Mansfield,
Massachusetts, the summer home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Beginning
in 1992 he has been Festival Director of the Cleveland Orchestra's Blossom Festival;
the position was created so he could exercise his flair for creative and wide-ranging
programming. In 1994 he was the artistic director of the 1994 Festival of American
Music at London's South Bank Centre. In 1996 he took up the position of Music
Director of the National Symphony Orchestra, and led them in successful tours and
recordings. Slatkin was named music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
in 2008 and the Orchestre National de Lyon in 2011. He continues his commitment
to youth orchestras, and also conducts opera in many of the world's major houses
and festivals."
All Music
The sharing period has ended. No more requests, and no re-ups of my material, please.
Three RCA CDs with orchestral works and film music by Aaron Copland, conducted by
one its finest interpreters, Leonard Slatkin. The collection includes:
Symphony No.1 (for Organ and Orchestra)
Short Symphony (= Symphony No.2)
Symphony No.3
Dance Symphony
Music for a Great City
Orchestral Variations
The Red Pony Suite
The Heiress Suite
Music for Movies
Our Town
Prairie Journal (Music for Radio)
Music Composed by
Aaron Copland
Played by the
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
Leonard Slatkin
"Leonard Slatkin is one of the world's leading conductors, noted for his performances of
American, Russian, and British music, and Haydn symphonies. He was born to a famous
musical family. His father was Felix Slatkin (1915-1963), a Saint Louis-born violinist who
rose to become a film score and light music conductor, and founder of the Hollywood
String Quartet. Leonard's mother was the excellent cello soloist Eleanor Aller, cellist of
the quartet. Between them, they trained their boy in violin, viola, piano, and conducting.
He attended Indiana University (1962) and Los Angeles City College (1963), and studied
with Walter Susskind (music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra) at the
Aspen Music School in 1964. He then attended Juilliard School in New York where he
studied conducting with Jean Morel, graduating in 1968 with a B. Mus. Degree. In that
same year he became assistant conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra under
Susskind, and was promoted to Associate Conductor in 1971, Associate Principal
Conductor in 1974, and Principal Guest Conductor in 1974. During this period he
showed his career-long commitment to musical training for young people by founding
the Saint Louis Youth Symphony in 1969 and conducting it. In 1974 he made his European
debut as a guest conductor with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and made
his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C. in 1978. He was
Artistic Adviser of the New Orleans Philharmonic (1977-1980). In 1979 he founded
the Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest series and served as its director for ten
years. In 1979 he was appointed Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony,
beginning a highly successful seventeen-year tenure including five triumphal
international tours and many recordings with Vox, EMI, and RCA records. With
the Saint Louis orchestra he conducted a notable series of discs of music by American
symphonic masters including Bernstein, Copland, Schuman, and Piston. He also
has recorded the complete Vaughan Williams and Elgar symphonies, a series of Haydn
symphonies, and works of Britten, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, among many others.
He has also recorded with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia
(London), the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the
Bavarian Radio Orchestra, totaling well over a hundred releases. He has been
nominated for Grammy awards more than fifty times and won four times. In 1990
he became music director of the Great Woods Performing Arts Center in Mansfield,
Massachusetts, the summer home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Beginning
in 1992 he has been Festival Director of the Cleveland Orchestra's Blossom Festival;
the position was created so he could exercise his flair for creative and wide-ranging
programming. In 1994 he was the artistic director of the 1994 Festival of American
Music at London's South Bank Centre. In 1996 he took up the position of Music
Director of the National Symphony Orchestra, and led them in successful tours and
recordings. Slatkin was named music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
in 2008 and the Orchestre National de Lyon in 2011. He continues his commitment
to youth orchestras, and also conducts opera in many of the world's major houses
and festivals."
All Music
The sharing period has ended. No more requests, and no re-ups of my material, please.
