Annapolis Symphony Orchestra: Copland Clarinet Concerto
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The Copland Clarinet Concerto is the second in the ASO's 2020-21 Season "Harmony in Nature." Concerts will be virtual until official guidelines allow the ASO to proceed with limited seating performances. To allow for social distancing on stage, the Symphony has adjusted its program through December to involve only string, percussion, keyboard, and harp. Unless otherwise noted, performances will be at the Music Center at Strathmore, of which the Symphony is an affiliate member, to utilize its larger stage and multi-camera capabilities.
“Copland Clarinet Concerto” embraces the season-long theme of Harmony in Nature both through poetry and music in the works of Catalonian composer Eduard Toldrà and American Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Toldrà’s music has a light Mediterranean accent, while Perkinson’s is personal and provocative. The inclusion of both Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Afro-British) and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (African American) in the same program is a deliberate effort from the ASO to reflect the current social and civil unrest and to reach out to the underrepresented musical culture of the African American community. Connecting beautifully with this subject, the Copland Clarinet Concerto brings this program to a glorious end with his masterful assimilation of the jazz idiom into the symphonic repertoire.
A single household ASO Live! ticket for real-time viewing of this concert is $49, available at AnnapolisSymphony.org/events
An all access Household pass for every concert in the 2020-21 season via the Symphony+ streaming platform, with the ability to view live and in replay as well as pre-concert talk access is $99, available at annapolissymphony.org/virtualseries
Copland Clarinet Concerto
Eduard Toldrà, Vistas al mar
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Novelette in A major, op. 52 No. 1
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Grass, Poem for Piano, Strings & Percussion
Aaron Copland, Clarinet Concerto - Robert DiLutis, clarinet
ASO Live! October 24, 2020 | 8 PM | The Music Center at Strathmore
