Copland: Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid; Rodeo
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Composer: Aaron CoplandConductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Buckaroo Holiday
- Corral Nocturne
- Saturday Night Waltz
- Hoe-Down
Free Music Notes for Copland: Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid; Rodeo
Free Music Review: Self-indulgent interpretation
Hit: 2 Stars
I must confess to an anti-Tilson-Thomas bias; but only as a result of this recording (and DVD) of Copland's Appalachian Spring. T-T has taken so many liberties that the piece is barely recognizable; well, okay, you can recognize it, but you wonder what the hell happened to it. It sounds like robots trying to play the blues, which is to say it's stiff, choppy, and doesn't swing. It slows down and speeds up with no apparent reason, other than perhaps their circuits going haywire. The music has so much inherent emotion and grandeur, T-T really shouldn't have made such a point of making it his own: Copland's is much better.
That said, the reason I gave it two stars instead of one (or none) is that it did make me listen to the score differently, and hear things that I hadn't heard in a more traditional interpretation. But I so disliked T-T's take on it in its entirety, that it just made me want to go back to the original and listen with perked-up ears, not listen to T-T's version again. Ever again.
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