El Salón México Orchestral music 1932 to 1936 Orchestra Orchestral music The work is a musical depiction of an eponymous dance hall in Mexico City and even carries the subtitle, "A Popular Type Dance Hall in Mexico City." Copland began the work in 1932 and completed it in 1936. The Mexico Symphony Orchestra gave the first performance under the direction of Carlos Chávez (1937). The piece was premiered in the U.S. in 1938. Although Copland visited Mexico early in the 1930s, he based this tone poem not on songs he heard there, but rather on written sheet music for at least four Mexican folk songs that he had obtained: "El Palo Verde," "La Jesusita," "El Mosco," and "El Malacate." At least two arrangements of the piece exist in addition to the orchestral score. Copland adapted the work for the 1947 musical film Fiesta, directed by Richard Thorpe for MGM. Leonard Bernstein created arrangements for solo piano and for two pianos, four-hands very shortly after the premiere. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salon_Mexico. Accessed 1/26/2010) First performance date: 1937-08-27 Concertos, clarinet, string orchestra Concertos 1947 to 1948 Clarinet String Orchestra Concertos (Clarinet with string orchestra) Rio de Janeiro, Brasil First performance date: 1950-11-06 "It was in Rio de Janeiro in 1947 that [Copland] began work on his Clarinet Concerto, which had been commissioned by the great jazz clarinettist and bandleader Benny Goodman." (Program notes) Music for the theatre Suite 1925 Chamber Orchestra Suites (Chamber orchestra) First performance date: 1925-11-20 "The title indicates not that the music was written for a particular play, but simply that it evokes the general atmosphere of the theatre of the time - including, in the fourth movement, the low-life burlesque." (Program notes) Connotations Orchestral music 1962 Orchestra Orchestral music First performance date: 1962-09-23 El Salón México Musical sound 1989-10 12:00 Orchestra Concertos, clarinet, string orchestra Musical sound 1989-10 18:00 Clarinet String Orchestra Music for the theatre Musical sound 1989-10 24:00 Chamber Orchestra Connotations Musical sound 1989-10 20:29 Orchestra El salón México ; Concerto for clarinet ; Music for the theatre ; Connotations Aaron Copland Hamburg, [Germany] Deutsche Grammophon 1991 Compact Disc 1 sound disc Plastic with metal Digital storage 4 3/4 in. Deutsche Grammophon:431 672-2 2894316722 (OCoLC)ocm25003614 1.4 m. per sec. Stereophonic Digital recording Program notes by Leonard Bernstein and Anthony Burton (3 p.) inserted in container. El salón México ; Concerto for clarinet ; Music for the theatre ; Connotations Aaron Copland Bloomington, IN IU Music Library 1999-04-01 Variations Remote Digital storage ACM2567 IU Music Library To be used in the IU Music Library or by registered students. Stereophonic .mp3 World Wide Web http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ACM2567 Restricted access Woodward Collection, IU Music Library CD .C784 Ge.9 ACM2567 Restricted access Bernstein, Leonard Amber, Lenny Bernstaĭn, Leonard Bernstein, L. (Leonard) Bernstein, Lenny 1918-1990 Male Lawrence, MA New York, NY USA Lawrence, MA Boston, MA Philadelphia, PA New York, NY English Author Composer Conductor Educator Pianist American composer and conductor. He studied with Walter Piston and Edward Burlingame Hill at Harvard University (1935–9) and with Fritz Reiner (conducting), Randall Thompson (orchestration), and Isabelle Vengerova (piano) at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia (1939–41). He also studied conducting under Koussevitzky at the Tanglewood summer schools (1940–3). In 1943 he made a highly successful debut, substituting for Bruno Walter at a New York Philharmonic concert; this launched him on his international career as a conductor and eventually led to his appointment as music director of the orchestra (1958–68) (Source: The Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Music Online. Accessed 3/1/2010). Drucker, Stanley 1929- Male New York, NY USA New York, NY Philadelphia, PA Indianapolis, IN Buffalo, NY English Clarinetist On June 4, 2009, Drucker was awarded a Guinness World Record for longest career as a clarinetist after [his] performance of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. Guinness logs his career at "62 years, 7 months and 1 day as of June 4, 2009" (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Drucker. Accessed 1/26/2010). Copland, Aaron Koplend, Aaron Kopland, Aaron 1900-1990 Male New York, NY North Tarrytown, NY USA New York, NY Paris, France Mexico Ossining, NY Rock Hill, Peekskill NY New York’s League of Composers ACA (leadership, 1939–45) AMC (co-founded, 1939) English Ballet Film Opera Composer Conductor Critic Educator American composer. The son of immigrant Jewish parents from Lithuania, he learnt the piano from the age of 13 and had theory lessons from Rubin Goldmark. He then studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1921–4) and, as one of her first American pupils, gained a facility for neo-classicism which he skilfully and brashly combined with jazz in his Piano Concerto (1926). This and other early works, including the Dance Symphony (1925) and Piano Variations (1930), quickly gained him a reputation in America as a daring modernist (Source: The Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Music Online. Accessed 3/1/2010). Burton, Anthony Male United Kingdom North Hertfordshire, UK Cambridge, UK Hanover, NH Manchester, UK London, UK Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra Trinity College, Cambridge Dartmouth College, New England North West Arts, Manchester BBC Radio 3 English Arts Administration Radio Recording Industry Arts Administrator Radio Producer Radio Manager Radio Broadcaster Record Producer Editor Record Reviewer Oboist On BBC World Service, [Anthony Burton] presented the 390-part series The Story of Western Music, and regularly presents Music Review. Tony is also a record producer, the editor of the forthcoming Associated Board series of Performers' Guides, a record reviewer for BBC Music Magazine, and the author of literally thousands of programme notes, and a history of the BBC Singers. (Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/anthony_burton.shtml. 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