Encouraged by Antonin Dvořák during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895, the Americans developed their own style and idiom within classical music, free from the European tradition.
Influences of folk tunes, church hymns, Afro-American gospels, blues and jazz and newly created rhythms were frequently used by American composers such as Charles Ives, Henry Cowell and Aaron Copland. In today’s broadcast of Concertzender Live Archive we’ll hear a mix of songs with this typically American classical Sound as it developed in the course of the 20th century.
- Elliott Carter Sonata for cello & piano (1948)
Pieter Wispelwey cello, Frank Mol, piano
De IJsbreker Leusden 21-02-1987
- Aaron Copland Music for the Theatre (1925)
Conservatorium van Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Academy Chamber orchestra and Percussion group
Beurs van Berlage Amsterdam 12-04-1995
- Samuel Barber Summer music (1955)
Euterpe Wind quintet
Noorderkerk Amsterdam 28-02-2004
4. Charles Ives Largo risoluto no I (1908) – largo risoluto no II (1908)
Mondriaan Quartet, mmv: Fred Oldenburg, piano
Shaffy Theater Amsterdam 31-01-1991
5. Morton Feldman Why Patterns? (1978)
Jos Zwanenburg, flute/alto flute/bass flute; Enric Monfort Barbera, glockenspiel; Frank Denyer, piano
Theater Kikker 07-04-2005
- Henry Cowell The Tides of Manaunaun (1917)
Ralph van Raat, piano
De Oosterpoort, Kleine Zaal, Groningen 09-11-2005
