Im 55yr old english fella, a roofer/prison officer, two noble trades if done properly. A common man, i take Mr.Copelands song personally. Its for us all,
Eugene Goosens called on Copeland to write this song as a tribute to all the common men called on to perform uncommon tasks in WW2. Goosens was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Aaron Copeland wrote the soundtrack to America, his Rodeo is the musical equivalent of Fredrick Remington's paintings of the old west, having grown up in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania I can assure you the story of him spending a springtime in a cabin in the Pennsylvania mountians to get the inspiration to write Appalachian Spring is 100% true, right now as I speak it's springtime in our Pennsylvania mountians, as the songbirds return and the forest comes back to life you can just feel that song in the air.
I started playing this (both versions) in high school orchestra and marching band. I am 64 now and still playing. Blood stays pumping with Aaron Copeland /ELP music classic.
I always wondered how this should be listened to -- Leonard Bernstein conducting the NY Philharmonic with Copland in the audience or ELP's sound check in Canada in the bitter cold. Now I know. It should be played this way.
I am a classically trained musician who had just started music school at the local university when Emerson Lake and Palmer came out with their album version of Copeland. Both versions bring back fond memories of a happy time in my life.
This is a masterpiece. Music has to encourage, entice, uplift the common person. This piece did that and more, it propelled the individual to become greater than themselves.
Nah fam, gang on dah shih mang, I be a schtraight thug n shih mang, glad you yt peepo passed yo civilization to us blacks. Now iz r turn to lead you yt's, we kangz and now uze gon bow down.
While I tend to be a strict purist, the transition to the upbeat ELP arrangement was a pleasant suprise. The orchestra members looked like they were having a great time with it. Very nice
Just brilliant, loved how these classically trained musicians were really into the ELP piece. Still love the original version from ELP . Got emotional right through this, music can do this to you.
I love this rendition of the song by Copeland. It should be in the repertoire of every symphony orchestra. Emerson, Lake and Palmer did a great job--and it will live through the ages. Thank you !!
What to say abour this...nothing, It reflecta how we aré as human beings, such a tribute to mankind, I'm 58 grew up with solid rock, blusa, soul an so on, this son wraps up all...thx to ELP
I agree. The Emerson part does not (to me) quite work in this orchestration, or performance. The voicings do not capture the angularity, muscularity and musical intelligence of the original. But I concede that anyone not intimately familiar with the source material would find a lot to enjoy. And the Copeland (opening) portion is excellent: faithfully rendered, as Kerenna points out, and in a very "musicianly" and sensitive way.
Wasn’t expecting the orchestral version of ELP’s prog rock 🪨 🎸🎸👩🎤🥸masterpiece at the end! This is cool 😎 and I’d bet all those musicians had the time of their lives bashing this one out on stage? 🎸👍🤜👏👏👏👏👏👏👏BRAVO!!!! BRAVO 🙌 BRAVO!!!!!👏👏👏
Thanks for the upload! Nearly every comment here seems to have little idea of the contribution of Keith Emerson to stylizing and modernizing a number of classical composers - Copeland included. His progressive-rock-classical works began in 1970 with Greg Lake and Carson Palmer, and are essential listening - even for you classicist snobs.
Well... actually Keith made me dig out Jean Sibelius' great music Karelia Suite, as he recorded a live rendition with his group The Nice. This was before ELP. great stuff, both The Keith version and the original! probably some of the best classical music to start with, if you enjoy classic prog and want to try on some classical music.
It's very strange that only one guy knows the "rock" (no jazz at all!) version of Fanfare by Emerson Lake and Palmer, great trio of musicians who reinterpretated classics (Bartok, Janacek, Bach, Mussorsgky, Stravinsky and Copland) in the '70s. Thanks God I had the chance to live those years and appreciate rock music!!! See how the player in the orchestra enjoy the rock part of Fanfare..... Great.Thanks to Keith Emerson!!!
@@patriciadyar2482 so did I in Detroit, and they returned a few months later, sans orchestra, it was too expensive a tour. Still, two of the greatest shows I've ever seen!!
R.I.P. Keith Emerson, now the late and great. Notice it took about 50 people to play his keyboards part! This rock version is as fast as the 1977 live version by ELP elsewhere on RU-vid with Carl Palmer's rotatin drum kit.
The second half of this tribute to America has such a delightful surprising jazz ending. One of the best of Aaron Copland a close friend of Leonard Bernstein
A GREAT PERFORMANCE OF THE ORIGINAL VERSION, BUT THE MODERN ONE IS MOST THAN AMAZING. BY THE EMOTION, IT ALMOST PROVOKE ME A BRAIN STROKE!. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL., FOR THIS INCREDIBLE GIFT!
I absolutely adore this rendering of this piece! The trumpets at the beginning sound like one trumpet and t as they move into the harmony it is seamless and gorgeous!!
It ALL gives chills. It's awesomely inspired. I wrote a fanfare that was inspired directly by this (I'll cop to it straight up, even though Copland himself was no doubt inspired by Janacek's Sinfonietta, written about 15 years before. Dueling Fanfares). This is an astounding Lincolnesque fanfare. What I wrote was premiered at Easter Sunday High Mass, and I masked the connection, for trumpet and brass synethesizer setting, though it was all written for the limitations of my original synthesizer, a Moog that was not polyphonic, but would play two notes at once. In harmony classes in younger years, I had read it was verboten to write melodic lines in parallel 5ths, so the piece was written in all parallel fifths, basically. So there. Take that, pedants! In any case, it was a hit, and I'm proud to have made something work that was said not to be viable musically, and that was my tribute to Copland, with his open fourths and fifths, so jaw dropping in the open sound of fanfares that seem to predate the first human brass instruments. From Above. Certainly this music is. And the soul snaps to attention with the first notification by the gong and then fanfare. Gabriel, is that you calling? LOL
Impressive tonal quality, timing and spacing by the brass in the opening Copland segment and really enjoyed the ELP treatment at the end. One of the best renditions on RU-vid! My compliments to this fine young orchestra.
Sweet! Copland was not unimpressed by ELP's version, but I'm not sure he would be on board with this. But that's Aaron. As far a I'm concerned it totally rocks.
Aaron Copeland loved it and in fact Aaron Copland and Keith Emerson became very close and Keith Emerson named his first son Aaron so that should tell you something
Yes he did approve of it and he became very close to Keith Emerson so close that Keith and his wife named the first born son Aaron after Aaron Copeland so that should tell you everything my friend isn’t this great music I grew up watching them perform in fact I saw them from almost the very beginning from 1973 through The year 2000 and I’ll tell you Keith Emerson RIP Greg Lake RIP thank God for Carl Palmer keeping the legacy alive which by the way is the name of his band I was so blessed seeing these guys thank you so much for indulging me
El "Puto Amo", con mayúsculas, Aaron Copland. Escucho esta fanfarria y mi imaginación, sin haber estado nunca ahí, se traslada a las llanuras de USA, y las recorre, al trote, con búfalos y el viento.
Notice the violinist smile at about 4:42 and then the bass violin (I think) at about 4:50 or so, both were smiling and were enjoying themselves playing ELP's upbeat version of this presentation. Thank you for the upload!
I had to chuckle at this, because half the orchestra looked offended by the end, while the other half thought they were in frickin' Metallica. :) Very nicely done!
Qué bien vendría un conciertito de estos en Colombia, donde estamos acostumbrados a oír puros cantantuchos que se creen dioses y lo que hacen es rebuznar acompañados de una orquesta. La música netamente instrumental también es un arte que debería des ser más valorado por las mazas. It would be fine to have this kind of concerts in Colombia, wherein we're used to listen to trash singers who believe they're gods and what they really do is braying accompained by an orchestra. The pure instrumental music is a kind of art that should be more valued by masses of people.
