Achim Breiling at [log in to unmask] wrote:

>Maybe some of you can enlighten me stupid German about two CDs I have
>recently seen and wondered if they might be interesting.  Both are on
>Mercury (Living Presence) with recordings from the 5ties and 6ties, both
>with the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra (I never heard of; what is/was that)
>and a conductor called Hanson (I guess its Howard Hanson). ...  The other
>one has Victor Herberts Celloconcerto Nr.2 and Grofes Grand Canyon-Suite.
>What kind of music is this? Hanson-like American-romantic?

Herbert was a friend of Dvorak and is most famous for writing 'Babes in
Toyland", it was he who encouraged Dvorak to write the cello concerto.
It sounds like 19th century teutonic-american composition.

Grofes grand canyon suite is one of the more popular light works from
America - it is a relative to the tradition of music of Von Suppe in
its past, and is a cousin to Copland's Americana style and the 1930's
neoclassicists.

Stirling Newberry
http://www.mp3.com/ssn
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