Read and Download the Program Notes by Aloma Bardi for the Concert of Camerata Strumentale Prato conducted by Jonathan Webb (Copland, Barber) presented as a homage to ICAMus.
Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring - Suite for 13 instruments, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Op. 24 H-114 for voice and orchestra to a text by James Agee are included in the December 12, 2024 concert of Camerata Strumentale di Prato conducted by Jonathan Webb, presented by the Palazzo della Musica Prato as a homage to ICAMus and the recently established American Music Center/Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana.
Read & download the concert's PROGRAM NOTES (PDF - in Italian) by ALOMA BARDI.
Aloma Bardi's Program Notes include the text by James Agee set to music by Barber in Knoxville, with a new Italian translation, as well as a historical note on the Shaker dance tune Simple Gifts as set to music by Aaron Copland in Appalachian Spring.
Photo: Aaron Copland conducting in rehearsal at Tanglewood; The Library of Congress Music Division, Aaron Copland Collection, 1841-1991, Box Number 477/3; date & photographer unknown.
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