March 21, 2012
The Sound of the American West
Composer Aaron Copland was a city slicker from Brooklyn, New York. And yet he instinctively knew how to capture the sound of the great open spaces of the American West. Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony play highlights from Copland's cowboy ballet, Billy the Kid, in a special gala concert in honor of the orchestra's 100th anniversary.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
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Carl Nielsen
Overture to Maskarade
The San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
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Maurice Ravel
Second movement from Sonata for Violin and Cello
Julia Fischer, violin, Daniel Muller-Schott, cello
Rainier III Auditorium, Monaco
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Emil Kroitor
Wedding Hora
Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet, Gilles Vonsattel, piano, Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, Clemson, South Carolina
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Paul Simon
Hobo's Blues
The Adaskin String Trio
Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida
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The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestant is Tom Veltre from Queens, New York
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Aaron Copland
Ballet Suite from Billy the Kid
The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
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Joseph Haydn
First movement from Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5 (Erdody)
The Johannes String Quartet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
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Henry Purcell
In Nomine in G Minor
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze, conductor
City Halls, Glasgow, Scotland
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Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Two Works for Harp and Vihuela
Rolf Lislevand, lute, Arianna Savall, harp
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 97 in C, Hob. I:97 (London)
The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor
Verbier Festival, Verbier, Switzerland
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Grazyna Bacewicz
Polish Caprice
Piotr Plawner, violin
Witold Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
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Franz Liszt
Paganini Etude in E-flat for Piano, S. 141, No. 2
Yefim Bronfman, piano
The Schubert Club, St. Paul