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]>