An American Portrait: Aaron Copland
Live broadcast. To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Aaron Copland the BBC
Symphony Orchestra presents three days of orchestral, stage and chamber works, plus talks and films, at the Barbican.
Tonight Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in some of Copland's less familiar repertoire. Presented by Anthony Burton and Leonard Slatkin. BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Copland Music for Radio (Prairie Journal); Music for the Movies; Music for the Theater
8.25 Twenty Minutes
Aaron Copland 's opera The Second
Hurricane offers a challenge to modern interpreters for a variety of reasons. Anthony Burton investigates.
8.45 Copland The Second Hurricane
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Junior and Senior Choirs, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin Music: page 57