Colorado Music Festival: Copland’s Lincoln Portrait

"This program begins and ends with Aaron Copland: first, his Fanfare for the Common Man; finally, his reverent portrait of Abraham Lincoln, featuring text from Lincoln’s speeches narrated by Chris Christoffersen. Saxophonist Steven Banks performs Alexander Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto. Florence Price is celebrated as the first Black woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra; here we perform the expansively emotional second movement from her String Quartet No. 2, arranged for string orchestra by Peter Oundjian."

COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man
PRICE: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1935) (Movement 2), arr. Peter Oundjian
GLAZUNOV: Saxophone Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 109
IBERT: Concertino da Camera
COPLAND: Lincoln Portrait