concert review: San Francisco Symphony

[calimac]

Aaron Copland was two composers. One wrote the music we all know and love. The one on display tonight was the other one, who wrote music we don't know and don't love. Forty minutes of this heaving stuff, although brilliantly performed, left me so dyspeptic that I skipped out of the concert's second, more agreeable half.

Comments

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

The program included the Orchestral Variations, I think? The piano version works much better.

Also, I am the person who flees from Billt the Kid, Appalachian Speing, etc., all of which I dislike. I don't much care for the other Copland either.