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Symphony Series
Sponsored by the City of
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American
Glory
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Symphony
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Copland: Lincoln Portrait.
Barber: Adagio for Strings.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5.
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Senator Jane
Nelson narrates
Copland's
"Lincoln
Portrait."
More on Sen.
Nelson
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Adults $25,
Students $10,
Special $5 discount for seniors (60+)
Tickets online
Venue:
MCL Grand in Old Town Lewisville.
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Aaron
Copland |
Copland's
Lincoln Portrait
Copland was asked to write a musical portrait of an "eminent American" by the conductor Andre Kostelanetz.
Originally,
Copland had
wanted to
portray Walt
Whitman, but it
was decided that
a political
figure was
needed.
'From this
moment, Lincoln
seemed
inevitable,"
said Copland. He
used material
from speeches
and letters of
Lincoln and
quoted original
folk songs of
the period,
including "Camptown
Races" and
"Springfield
Mountain". The
latter quote is
probably a
reference to
Lincoln's
association with
Springfield,
Illinois,
although there
are no mountains
in Springfield.
Copland finished
Lincoln Portrait
in April 1942.
The first
performance was
by the
Cincinnati
Symphony
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Barber's
Adagio for Strings
"Adagio for
Strings" by
Samuel Barber is
arranged for
string orchestra
from the second
movement of his
String Quartet,
Op. 11. Barber
finished the
arrangement in
1936, the same
year as he wrote
the quartet.
It was performed for the first time in 1938, in a radio broadcast from a
New York studio
attended by an
invited
audience,
conducted by
Arturo
Toscanini, who
also took the
piece on tour to
Europe and South
America.
The piece begins
with a B flat
played by
violins, leading
to the lower
strings'
entrance. The
rhythm is mainly
compressed with
sustained notes
and includes
both the time
signatures of
4/4 and 6/4. The
piece can be
heard in many TV
shows and movies
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Samuel
Barber |
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Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Anton Felix Schindler, Beethoven's biographer, asked him to explain the first bars in Part I of the fifth symphony. The composer responded, " So pocht das Schicksal an die Pforte!" (That’s how destiny knocks on your door)
Beethoven's 5th argument
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