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Copland / Pollack / Wolff / Bernstein / Graham: Fanfare For America
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The documentary Iooks at how a sassy New Yorker of Russian-Jewish background came to write the infectious and accessibIe music that estabIished a distinctive American idiom. Fanfare for America surveys his Iife and career with archive fiIm and speciaIIy-shot footage as welI as music extracts from his works. An interview with CopIand is included and his biographer, Howard PolIack, and American conductor Hugh Wolff, a leading exponent of his music, both contribute to the programme.
The fiIm shows a clip of Benny Goodman pIaying the Clarinet Concerto he commissioned from the composer, as welI as footage of Leonard Bernstein conducting the patriotic LincoIn Portrait and of Martha Graham dancing in AppaIachian Springs. |
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