Our Town (suite based on music from the soundtrack of the 1940 film)
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Annotation
The score for Our Town was composed in 1940, the film getting its first showings in May of that year. Copland then prepared a short concert excerpt, which was first played on June 9 that year by the Columbia Broadcasting Symphony under Howard Barlow. This work is the revised version that was introduced on May 7, 1944, by the Boston Pops conducted by Leonard Bernstein, to whom the score is dedicated. Performance time: about 10 minutes.
Annotation last modified on 2014-11-14 15:52 UTC.
Relationships
| composer: | Aaron Copland (composer) (from 1940 until 1944) |
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| is based on: | Our Town |
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Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| 2002-01-27 – 2002-02-03 | Suite from Our Town | Boston Metropolitan Orchestra, David Callahan | 12:37 | |
| Our Town | London Symphony Orchestra, Aaron Copland | 11:05 | ||
| Our Town | Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | 9:06 | ||
| Our Town (Suite for Orchestra) | Utah Symphony, Maurice Abravanel | 9:11 | ||
| Story of Our Town | partial | Lang Lang | 4:22 | |