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Copland Quiet City Orchestre philharmonique de radio France mikko Franck
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The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Mikko Franck, perform Copland's Quiet City, suite for English horn, trumpet, and strings with Alexandre Baty and Stéphane Suchanek. Concert recorded live on 5 October 2018 at the Grande salle Pierre Boulez of the Philharmonie de Paris. • AARON COPLAND (1900-1990) - Quiet City - Composed in 1939 and premièred in this current version on 28 January 1941 in New York. Dedicated to Ralph Hawkes. • Born in 1913 to a Jewish New York family, the writer Irwin Shaw, his real name Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, wrote numerous radio scripts before penning his first works for theatre. In 1936, Bury the Dead talked about soldiers killed in combat refusing their own funerals after their death. Three years later, Irwin Shaw questioned his own identity in Quiet City, staged in April 1939 Elia Kazan for the Group Theater. The story describes a Jewish store owner who, having turned to Christianity after changing his name from Mellnikoff to Gabriel Mellon (similar to Shaw), is about to become the American ambassador of Finland, thus abandoning his employees to their fate. His younger brother, a poor jazz trumpeter, brings Gabriel back to the Jewish roots of their ancestors and a greater social empathy. The stage music, composed by Aaron Copland, would later become an orchestral work in which the trumpet and English horn each represent one of the two characters. In this melancholic work whose success has not waivered since its première in 1941, Copland seems to have found inspiration as much in Hebrew cantillation as in Afro-American songs. • He too a Jew from New York, Aaron Copland was particularly sensitive to the delicate text: It called for music evocative of the nostalgia and inner distress of a society profoundly aware of its own insecurity. The author's mouthpiece was a young trumpet player called David Mellnikoff, whose trumpet playing helped to arouse the conscience of his fellow players and of the audience [...] Several friends urged me to make use of the thematic material used in my score as the basis for an orchestral piece. This is what I did in the summer of 1940, as soon as my duties at the Berkshire Music Center were finished. I borrowed the name, the trumpet and some themes from the original play. The addition of English horn and string orchestra (I was limited to clarinet, saxophone, and piano, plus the trumpet of course, in the stage version), and the form of the piece as a whole, was the result of work in a barn studio two miles down the road from Tanglewood. The orchestration was completed in late September, and the score dedicated to Ralph Hawkes, junior member of the London firm of Boosey and Hawkes, who published the composition. • Its structure deemed too complex, the work was canceled after only two performances, and Irwin Shaw turned to the world of cinematography, eventually working for Anatol Litvak, Richard Thorpe and René Clément in Barrage contre le Pacifique, originally written Marguerite Duras. Shaw garnered wordlwide success as a novelist, in particular following the publication of The Young Lions, adapted for cinema by Edward Dmytryk starring Montgomery Clift, Two Weeks in another Town adapted by Vincente Minelli starring Kirk Douglas, and even Rich Man, Poor Man, originally a television series starring Peter Strauss et Nick Nolte. A victim of McCarthyism, Shaw moved to Switzerland where he later died in 1984. Six years later, Aaron Copland also passed away, leaving behind a work evocative of an American grandeur, known as Americana in music and cinema, heir to the great American landscapes, and the multiplicity of its roots. • More concerts on : https://www.francemusique.com/concerts • Click here to suscribe to our YouTube Channel : http://bit.ly/2oeEr3e • Follow us on: • Facebook - https://bit.ly/2G380fK • Twitter - http://bit.ly/2okZSfP • Instagram - http://bit.ly/2nDA547
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