The American way
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The American way
（Leaving home : orchestral music in the 20th century / a conducted tour by Simon Rattle, 5）
Arthaus Musik, c1996
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Made in America
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With excerpts from: Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin. Decoration day / Charles Ives. First construction (in metal) / John Cage. A celebration of some 100×150 Notes / Elliott Carter. Mme Press died last week at 90 / Morton Feldman. Appalachian spring / Aaron Copland. Harmonium / John Adams. Lonely house (from "Street scene") / Kurt Weill. In C / Terry Riley. Symphonic dances (from "West side story") / Leonard Bernstein
In English and German with French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese subtitles
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Cast: Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor ; Wayne Marchall, piano ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Credits: Director, Deborah May
LaserVision NTSC; PCM stereo; DVD
Arthaus Musik: 102 041
Contents of Works
- Introduction
- George Gershwin : music that smells like New York
- Charles Ives : the insurance broker and devine composer
- Elliott Carter : America itself in music
- Aaron Copland :through a particularly American camera
- Kurt Weill : melting pot America
- Leonard Bernstein : the vibrancy of American life
- John Cage : an inventor of genius
- Morton Feldman : a kind of pulsating stillness
- Terry Riley : a type of hypnotic state
- John Adams : an exhilarating sense of flying motion
- Special features. Biographies of the composers
- Appalachian spring / Copland