Aaron Copland: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (1934)

Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by / Orquesta Sinfónica de Detroit dirigida por Leonard Slatkin.
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is one of the most famous American composers; his music has been heard all over in political as well as in public events, and it has been since honored or parodied by several composers after him. His first period is however a bit of an obscure time, as he ascribed to modernism and postromanticism. His ballet Hear Ye, Hear Ye! belongs to that period following the Roaring Twenties as the Prohibition crime and mafia stories ran rife.
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) es uno de los compositores estadounidenses más famosos; su música ha sido constantemente escuchada en eventos políticos o públicos y ésta ha sido honrada o parodiada por varios compositores posteriores. Su primer periodo es, sin embargo, poco conocido ya que para entonces Copland se establecía como modernista y posromántico. Su ballet ¡Escuchad, escuchad! pertenece a aquel periodo tras los años veinte en que los crímenes ligados a la Prohibición y la mafia daban lugar a todo tipo de historias.
Image/imagen: Sketch from a court / Boceto de una corte, n.d.

[@ThomMorales]

Love it! Rarely hear this anymore

[@whyyyyou]

0:00 Scene 1 Prelude
1:47 Scene 2 The Courtroom
2:22 Scene 3 Dance
4:17 Scene 4 Dance Of The Prosecuting
6:34 Scene 5 The Night Club Hostess Sworn In
7:16 Scene 6 The Chorus Girls' First Dance
11:07 Scene 7 First Pas-de-deux
14:26 Scene 8 Pas-de-deux and Murder
18:03 Scene 9 The Courtroom
18:45 Scene 10 The Honeymoon Couple
19:26 Scene 11 The Chorus Girls With Doves
21:53 Scene 12 Second Pas-de-deux and Murder
25:45 Scene 13 The Courtroom
26:27 Scene 14 The Waiter Sworn In
27:03 Scene 15 The Chorus Girls' Third Dance
28:48 Scene 16 Third Pas-de-deux and Murder
32:28 Scene 17 The Verdict
32:47 Scene 18 The Courtroom

[@gerthenriksen8818]

Wild!

[@Twentythousandlps]

Copland considered making a suite of extracts from this, but in the end decided to drop it entirely during his lifetime. So it has a strange sort of half-life in his catalogue.

[@markkozlowski3674]

Distortion of "The Star Spangled Banner: thirty-five years before Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.