Nick Jones wrote:

>The Howard Hanson recording on Mercury 432 755-2 can't be beat.  I was
>surprised not to find a Bernstein recording, though there is one with
>the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kostelanetz.

If that has the came coupling that it did on LP--Copland's Lincoln
Portrait--it's worth getting for Carl Sandburg's narration.

>The first time I heard the orchestra suite, I was surprised at the
>shortness of "Chester." I had played a band version in high school that
>was longer.  Don't know which version Schuman wrote first.

According to a conductor I'm playing that under now, the band version
came first.  I haven't checked this, but it doesn't sound right to me.

Roger Hecht <[log in to unmask]>