Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis
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Autumn in New York 2 HD 720p 2
This beautiful Vernon Duke song, from the 1934 musical "Thumbs Up," has become a love song to NY in my favorite time of year. In his book "American Popular Song" Alec Wilder says it was "the closing song, a production number . . . for which Duke wrote his own lyrics. Usually a closing song in a revue or any theater musical attracts little attention. But this song, of a completely different character from "April in Paris," [also a Vernon Duke song] turned out to be a standard of almost equal prominence."
I also feel that Ms. Upshaw's version of the song is one of the best, if not the very best version around, partly because she includes leadsheet (which I have never heard another singer do)...
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Aaron Copland - An Outdoor Overture
Просмотров 7 тыс.8 лет назад
As a 1953 graduate I would like to pay tribute to the High School of Music and Art, and to this music which Copland wrote specifically for the school in 1938. The work was premiered by Alexander Richter on 16 December 1938 with the school orchestra and later had its symphony orchestra premiere under Alexander Smallens at an all-American concert in Carnegie Hall on 7 May 1939. Leonard Bernstein ...
Aaron Copland: Down a Country Lane
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Always interested in young performers, Copland accepted a commission from 'Life' magazine to compose a short piece for piano students to be published in their June 19,1962 issue. In the intro Copland warned, "This composition is a bigger challenge than it first looks, and even third year students will have to practice before trying it in public." "Down a Country Lane" was orchestrated for inclu...
Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Просмотров 19 тыс.10 лет назад
This is a second revised version of my earlier video of "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" (which can be viewed at - ruclips.net/video/bXlLJbOPHNc/видео.html) with the lyrics complete and continuous and replacing the captions identifying the Barber and Agee families. It's a tribute to Samuel Barber and James Agee, as well as my own family, without whose photo albums this video would not have been poss...
George Gershwin: Rialto Ripples Rag
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Written in 1917, this is generally recognized as Gershwin's first instrumental work. The energy and brashness of the piece make for delightful listening.
George Gershwin: Lullaby
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Gershwin wrote 'Lullaby' as a harmony exercise for his teacher Edward Kilenyi in 1919 or 1920. He wrote it both as a string quartet and piano piece and it remained unpublished until 1968. It was played as a string quartet by the composer's friends but not premiered until the Juilliard Quartet played it at the Library of Congress in 1967.
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage
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Goethe's two short 1795 poems, "Calm Sea" and "The Prosperous Voyage," inspired several composers, among them Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Beethoven wrote his piece for chorus and orchestra. Mendelssohn did not use the text of the poems in his piece but I have included it as subtitles. I have long admired the paintings of Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865), a contemporary of Mendelssohn (1809-1847). I ha...
Delius: Two Aquarelles
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Originally written for mixed unaccompanied chorus in 1917, "To be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water" was arranged for string orchestra by Eric Fenby in 1932 and retitled "Two Aquarelles." As an admirer of the work of both Delius and Wyeth for many years I couldn't resist putting them together to see how their aquarelles would interact.
Aaron Copland - Letter from Home
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'Letter from Home' was commissioned by Paul Whiteman and the American Broadcasting Company. The premiere was conducted by Whiteman on the Philco Radio Hour on October 17, 1944. It was revised in 1962 and this version represents a reduction of the original scoring. I have drawn extensively from the photos in our family albums to illustrate the piece, giving it a World War I setting.
Henry Cowell: Old American Country Set
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This was conceived to go with a previous video I made using some of Cowell's music from his 'Old American Country Set' (1937-1939) but I have added his later 'Hymn and Fuguing Tune No.2' (1944) as I feel that it goes so well with the country set. The music evokes the simple, straightforward way of life that he was reminded of from visits to relatives in the midwest when he was growing up.
Gershwin Piano Concerto - Manhattan: The Magical Island
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I think these photographs by Ben Judah Lubschez from his 1927 book "Manhattan - The Magical Island" nicely complements the slow movement of George Gershwin's piano concerto. Commissioned by Walter Damrosch for the New York Philharmonic and written only a year after his ground breaking Rhapsody in Blue, the concerto gives a good indication of things to come from this composer.
Henry Cowell - a musical life
Просмотров 71811 лет назад
This brief album grew out of a short selection of photos that I originally thought to use at the end of the Cowell American Country Music video. But it seemed to intrude rather than being a fitting conclusion and a friend, and fellow Cowell enthusiast, encouraged me to expand it and make a separate piece out of it.
Composers n'cats: Henry Cowell: Satire (from American Melting Pot)
Просмотров 72011 лет назад
I made this video just for fun after finding that there were many composers who had been photographed with their cats. Besides the music pages I included (Zez Confrey's Kitten on the Keys, Ravel's cat duet and Stravinsky's Berceuses du Chat) many other composers tried the subject on for size - Chopin's Cat Waltz, D.Scarlatti's Cats Fugue and Rossini's Humorous Duet for Two Cats, to name just a ...
Henry Cowell's American Country Music
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Henry Cowell's American Country Music
Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan
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Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan
Alec Wilder, Slow Dance
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Alec Wilder, Slow Dance
Vaughan Williams: The Captain's Apprentice
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Vaughan Williams: The Captain's Apprentice
Quiet City, Aaron Copland
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Quiet City, Aaron Copland
George Gershwin & The New Aeolian Hall
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George Gershwin & The New Aeolian Hall

Комментарии

  • @eottoe2001
    @eottoe2001 10 дней назад

    By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass, in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

  • @damolaowolade7034
    @damolaowolade7034 21 день назад

    beautiful

  • @martinefuguet7456
    @martinefuguet7456 Месяц назад

    C'est magnifique Morgane ! Je viens de partager avec mon amie à la belle maison. Elle adore le chant . Je t'embrasse

  • @melvynstevenson6487
    @melvynstevenson6487 Месяц назад

    I thought N.Y.C. is the city that never sleeps.! So how come it is quiet and peaceful in the early hours when you deliver newspapers.

  • @thorntonsfold
    @thorntonsfold Месяц назад

    Just as Delius was delighted by Peter Warlock's birthday tribute I think Vaughan Williams would have loved this. Why not? it's more concise than the Tallis Fantasia and for my money its climax (5.30) is gorgeous beyond words.

  • @clydeblair9622
    @clydeblair9622 Месяц назад

    Our Town too two masterpieces. Love them so.

  • @alexanderelliott3284
    @alexanderelliott3284 2 месяца назад

    the perfect music for a film noir!

  • @paul8193
    @paul8193 2 месяца назад

    This composer inspired Nick Drake and if you listen good you can hear the similarity❤️

  • @markwilliams3174
    @markwilliams3174 3 месяца назад

    Dawn Upshaw performs my favourite version of this incredibly beautiful and emotional work.

  • @peterschorn1
    @peterschorn1 4 месяца назад

    ...and everybody thought that was the end of Max Biyalistock. Little did they know...

  • @herringpickled
    @herringpickled 4 месяца назад

    Watched once more. Thank you again. You have an eye for beauty.

  • @herringpickled
    @herringpickled 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for your pairing of Copland and Hopper. I love the work of both, and often equate one with the other. Very gratifying that someone else does too. Such an evocative video.

  • @zuzannawisniewska4464
    @zuzannawisniewska4464 4 месяца назад

    Whoever is reading this, we don't know each other and probably never will, but I wish you all the best in life and all the happiness in the world ...

    • @tonychestnut904
      @tonychestnut904 4 месяца назад

      How lovely, and much appreciated. I wish you all that will make you happy and fulfilled in life.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Месяц назад

      Sure....but....WHY would you do THAT? Cheers from Acapulco!

    • @Nishijin1975
      @Nishijin1975 Месяц назад

      Live long and prosper my fellow human being 🖖.

    • @svenssender
      @svenssender Месяц назад

      @@steveegallo3384 because praying for someone elses device is a needful thing

    • @svenssender
      @svenssender Месяц назад

      Thank You So much. Merci. Gracias. Dankeschön. Bedankt. Mille Grazie 🥰

  • @kpf546
    @kpf546 5 месяцев назад

    Anyone know the name of the bridge at 5:05? This is such an awesome video to go along with an outstanding piece of music.

  • @ykrgfk
    @ykrgfk 5 месяцев назад

    If you're interested in the song, its history and in Vaughan Williams feelings about folk music, I recommend reading 'The captain's apprentice - Ralph Vaughan Williams and the story of a folk song' by Caroline Davison. Pub. Vintage 2022.

  • @r23m64
    @r23m64 5 месяцев назад

    حي

  • @rogermiller2159
    @rogermiller2159 5 месяцев назад

    His music just makes me feel so good.

  • @Hobert-v4s
    @Hobert-v4s 5 месяцев назад

    Nothing like the UK!!

  • @Hobert-v4s
    @Hobert-v4s 5 месяцев назад

    Great views of Europe countrysides!!!

  • @pinegd1
    @pinegd1 6 месяцев назад

    I delivered newspapers in the early morning when I was a kid. This music reminds me of the feeling I experienced when the rest of the world was sleeping and all the artifice of the built environment layed dormant waiting for the day to start.

    • @phthisicblue
      @phthisicblue 15 дней назад

      Once I was at my desk at 4AM and this came on and the elegaic feel suddenly made me feel like I was a ghost looking over my personal effects from the other side.

  • @7927jackpark
    @7927jackpark 6 месяцев назад

    In the early '50s, CBS-TV broadcast an hourlong Sunday afternoon program called 'Omnibus' that was hosted by Alistair Cooke. On one of the early programs, it offered a profile of a composer whose seemed, in the minds of the show's producers, to capture the spirit and soul of America. The composer was Aaron Copland. It's been many, many years since I saw that show, but the snippet of Mr. Copland's music aired just may have been Letter from Home. I heard his works performed live a dozen times and I attended his 80th birthday concert at the Kennedy Center in 1980. Mr. Copland and Mr. Bernstein each had a chance to conduct the National Symphony.

  • @karynricks8556
    @karynricks8556 6 месяцев назад

    I want this played at my memorial. Love you Arron Copland. My Hero.

  • @jbut1208
    @jbut1208 7 месяцев назад

    I am an Aussie but have traveled through the American countryside! It seems to me that Copeland gets America better than any other composer! You yanks should regard him as a national treasure!!

    • @donschmidt1373
      @donschmidt1373 5 месяцев назад

      Trust me, we do. He's definitely one of our voices.

    • @jslasher1
      @jslasher1 Месяц назад

      jbut108: there is No “e” in Copland.

  • @highdefp-rm7zg
    @highdefp-rm7zg 7 месяцев назад

    So much joy from English composers of this era. Williams, Walton, Elgar, Frank Bridge, Ronald Binge (The Watermill),Hubert Clifford (Curly Locks, Robert Farnon (Lots). Thanks for this clip N1.

  • @charleskeillor
    @charleskeillor 8 месяцев назад

    A wonderful compilation of music and image I only discovered on youtube this week. Love Aaron Copland and Edward Hopper, along with the also amazing photographs by the likes of Berenice Abbott.

  • @Mark_Dyer
    @Mark_Dyer 8 месяцев назад

    I was introduced to this piece from an article in the Journal of the RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SOCIETY, in which Thomas Cannings' piece is compared with the earlier, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Both are utterly beautiful pieces of music.

    • @colinturton4524
      @colinturton4524 Месяц назад

      Yes, I felt that association too. Both wonderful pieces. I would be happy for either work to be played at my funeral ... but NOT yet!

  • @ForestMyths
    @ForestMyths 8 месяцев назад

    This piece is so touching with the child talking about being alive in Knoxville in the summer of 1915. This was just before the U.S. entered WWI (that wasn't until 1917). It evokes a lulling and lyrical sense of peace and beauty, even the loud auto. But there is one line in the poem that sets off this idyllic time presented in the text. It's when the narrator says "By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth..." This line is very different from the rest of Aggee's text. It is a child who is narrating the piece, but there is a timelessness in the acknowledgment and poignancy of loss and sorrow, especially told with a child's voice., that makes everything else in the text special and precious.

  • @ForestMyths
    @ForestMyths 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this. I like this version. You don't say who the soprano is. My favorite recording of this piece is by Sylvia McNair. Thank you for sharing this. ruclips.net/video/WG8_nLJ6238/видео.html

  • @ronaldculpepper413
    @ronaldculpepper413 8 месяцев назад

    wonderful piece of music and the Hopper painting are perfect accompaniments. Does anyone have information about the photographer or photographers? The photos are also excellent and fascinating. I would love to see more.

  • @jamescasey8065
    @jamescasey8065 8 месяцев назад

    ...Mr. Lewis...With respect, I would be quite remiss in failing to thank you...And extend my compliments for your work on Aaron Copland...He is one of the Giants of American Art..."Quiet City", from my perspective, is perfection...Rarely done by a Human...Its ability to speak to you...And give you calmness is extraordinary...It carries the emotions that were once spread all over this Country...Goodly, basic, inquiring, compassionate emotions...And We have, somehow, managed lose our embrace of them...And they are gone from us...The pairing of Mr. Copland and Mr. Hopper could not be more natural...I think that , in their respective disciplines, They were both seeking the same Horizon...To a large degree, they are joined at the hip...When I need reassurance, calmness, a check on myself; I listen to "Quiet City"...It would have been a wonderful time of learning for me to have had a conversation with Mr. Copeland...Pax.

  • @christopherallen487
    @christopherallen487 8 месяцев назад

    A miracle ... Meant to be ... Several works of the most profound, wonderful, beautiful art ... Thank you ...

  • @ambercrombie789
    @ambercrombie789 9 месяцев назад

    Reminds me of someone so very dear to me. Exquisite, ethereal. Healing. wow / My diminutive joy.

  • @williamwatterson8711
    @williamwatterson8711 10 месяцев назад

    Copland at his best. The slides also add a lot . . .

  • @markberryhill2715
    @markberryhill2715 10 месяцев назад

    That was absolutely beautiful from beginning to end,and I was just thinking of Ed Hopper this morning. Fantastic!

  • @Tony-Thompson
    @Tony-Thompson 10 месяцев назад

    Just beautiful. An ideal mix of artistry. I did not know Andrew Wyeth's work. He was sparing with colour, for sure - but that seemingly was his way. There is a sort of longing in the paintings, a longing echoed by the sadly glorious music of Delius. Mustn't forget the delicacy of Eric Fenby's arrangements from the original unaccompanied voices of 'To be sung of a Summer night on the river' which are also well worth hearing. Thank you for uploading this delightful work.

  • @williampaul8556
    @williampaul8556 11 месяцев назад

    Copland is so visual.

  • @gustavoavalos4648
    @gustavoavalos4648 11 месяцев назад

    Estas increíbles imágenes componen una extraordinaria suite, llena de magia y belleza; complementan estupendamente la poética composición musical. MIl gracias!

  • @kathyramirez4278
    @kathyramirez4278 11 месяцев назад

    Copland's music and William Wyler's classic film The Best Years of Our Lives stir my emotions like no other. My dad spent 11 months in a German prisoner of war camp and went through 4 Death Marches during WWll. He was the most well adjusted and compassionate man I've ever known.😢

  • @adamfindlay7091
    @adamfindlay7091 11 месяцев назад

    Hopper. Thank You for that. This piece emotes what we all experience, those who came to streets, paved with dreams of the last, this one and many more centuries. Maybe that's why Copeland never gets old. This also sounds like the city, or maybe the horns are calling.

  • @tucupinotacacah
    @tucupinotacacah 11 месяцев назад

    Que belíssimo vídeo, faz jus à inspiradora serenidade das Aquarelas de Delius e de Wyeth.

  • @MrJDWillard
    @MrJDWillard 11 месяцев назад

    Just the BEST! St Lukes and Dawn Upshaw wonderful!

  • @jslasher1
    @jslasher1 Год назад

    What a heartfelt work by America’s finest composer.

  • @alexknisely752
    @alexknisely752 Год назад

    How marvellous this is ! THANK YOU, Mr Lewis

  • @johnbuchness9361
    @johnbuchness9361 Год назад

    The dress and some of the photos looks like from 1905, and not World War II vintage but it was a pretty good montage I guess

  • @jeffdoomy9235
    @jeffdoomy9235 Год назад

    When America was great.

  • @clydeblair9622
    @clydeblair9622 Год назад

    New York, at the same time the promise and cesspool for immigrants.

  • @russt44
    @russt44 Год назад

    Sylvia McNair's version is the other one

  • @clydeblair9622
    @clydeblair9622 Год назад

    A marvelous panoply of images.

  • @parthoroy9141
    @parthoroy9141 Год назад

    Thank you for the introductory material for your post; i was not clear on the Beethoven connection 🙏

  • @nancyrevzen7798
    @nancyrevzen7798 Год назад

    the late year lies down the north, all is healed , all is health. High summer holds the earth ,hearts all whole. Another wonerful pairing of Agee and Barber