Aaron Copland conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in his own fiendishly difficult Short Symphony. Premiered in Mexico City in the thirties, it had to wait nearly ten years before an American orchestra felt up to playing it.
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Aaron Copland conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in his own fiendishly difficult Short Symphony. Premiered in Mexico City in the thirties, it had to wait nearly ten years before an American orchestra felt up to playing it.
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