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Composer of the Week: Copland: 4: Hollywood and McCarthyism

BBC Radio 3
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With Donald Macleod.

As a film composer under the director Lewis Milestone, Copland enjoyed unprecedented editorial control over the music included in his films. This freedom must have seemed a distant memory when a decade later Senator McCarthy invited him to appear before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
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St Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin Piano Fantasy John Jensen
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Thomas Hampson (baritone), St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Subject:
Aaron Copland
Musicians:
St Louis Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Pianist:
John Jensen
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Musicians:
St Paul Chamber Orchestra
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff
Source: Radio Times

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