American Polyphony: Barber, Copland, Bernstein, R. Thompson
7/28/2023, 21 Tracks, 1:14:05
Featuring
Stephen Layton
Polyphony
Randall Thompson
Samuel Barber
Leonard Bernstein
Aaron Copland
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Composer Biography
Samuel Barber's aunt, Louise Homer, was a contralto who sang at New York's Metropolitan Opera for nineteen seasons and was married to composer Sydney Homer, who mentored Barber.
Performer Biography
Polyphony, founded by Stephen Layton in 1986, has received Grammy Award nominations and a Gramophone Award for their recordings.
Composition History
Randall Thompson's 'Alleluia' was written as a 'slow, sad piece' in the first few days of July 1940, influenced by the news of Paris's surrender to the Germans.
Composition History
Leonard Bernstein's Missa brevis was created by reworking incidental music he composed in 1955 for a play about Joan of Arc, called 'The Lark'.
Cultural Impact
Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings, originally a string quartet movement, has become an unofficial national anthem of mourning in the United States.
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