This past weekend was the 2009-2010 season finale for Kamuela Philharmonic. In the videos I am the third stand first violinist at the very end. We performed Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, a Mozart violin concerto, and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro Overture.
A little music history for my blog:
Aaron Copland was born November 14, 1900 and lived to December 2, 1990 in Brooklyn NY. Several members of my orchestra actually had the opportunity to play under his conduction when he went on tour around the country working with different orchestras during the last decade of his life. He was an American Nationalist composer, with pieces that truly evoked the vast American landscape. He also incorporated percussive orchestration, changing meter, polyrhythms and polychords in most of his work. I would consider Copland's music to be much more percussive than melodic. His other most famous pieces I have performed in the past are Rodeo and Billy the Kid.
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