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FRIDAY: 1973 Inaugural Concert. Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Van Cliburn, and the Robert Wagner Chorale perform Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Beethoven's Fifth symphony, Grieg's Concerto is A Minor, and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." A rare treat but don't watch unless Nixon signs the ceasefire agreement. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color. Live...
...more was called for. So 70 of his former pupils and friends, together with Conductors Eugene Ormandy and Leopold Stokowski, chipped in to commission a new piece for flute by an American composer. Just as there was no doubt that the man to write the piece should be Aaron Copland, so there was no doubt that the flutist to play it should be Elaine Shaffer...
...just the queen of the flute, but one of the world's two or three finest concert flutists, male or female. In 1971, Shaffer and Pianist Hephzibah Menuhin gave the world premiere of the new work at a benefit for Philadelphia's Settlement Music School, with Copland in attendance. Last week in New York, Shaffer recorded the work for Columbia Records, this time with Copland, 72, at the piano...
Pastoral and elegiac in mood, Duo for Flute and Piano is a chamber-music gem that should become a staple of the scant flute literature. In it, Copland returns to the comparatively simple harmonic and melodic world of Appalachian Spring, though the piece is far from simple to play. "Ai-yai-yai-yai-yai! Copland cried out repeatedly at the recording session as he missed one or another of his own notes. A few feet away, Shaffer smiled sweetly back, having nothing to swear about, since she misses a note about as often as the sun fails to come...
CURRIER HOUSE SENIOR COMMON ROOM: Patricia Kopec and Jay Gottlieb perfrom music for viola and piano, viola solo, and piano solo by Milhaud, Fuchs, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Copland, Liszt, Brahms...