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Apparently this was an Grammy award winning performace. These disks are going gfor a premium

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I love this piece. I played it twice last year with two different orchestras (two different results, too:). What an incredible piece. While I've never heard or read this in music history classes, I've always thought about how much I hear Dvorak's influence in Copland. I especially like the quiet parts of it, like around rehearsal #67 in "Ballet for Martha." It's incredibly settling, peaceful, and with just that bit of aching beauty. Enjoy your week of playing this! Nice story. : ) I played Appalachian Spring last month, Emily!

I'm glad you got to play it! It's such a powerful piece of music! Especially that ending where it says "like a prayer" in the score. Ah! so many images running through my mind!!

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Buri Emily is my favorite Republican. <3 Her cooking is renowned in Japan? Can it be renowned Canada too? Please?! Five, her drawing is renowned in Canada:) E. Smith is my favorite socialist! ;)

So now I'm curious as to who's going to spread the wealth and buy me a ticket to Japan and Canada? It is my sincere belief that recipe trading, not stock market trading, is the best way to end world hunger and promote peace. (How's that for a campaign platform?) I'm electing George as my running mate, on account of his venison parmesan.

I love Appalachian Spring. I often play it at home while looking at a poster on my wall, a famous photograph by Elliott Porter which is one of a series called "Intimate Landscapes." It really does look like Appalachia in spring. I've been there and seen the real thing outdoors. Despite of all my efforts, I can not take a photograph anywhere near as pretty as Elliott Porter's. The visual portrait enhances the music as I play it. I never hear death in this piece of music. I hear a reason to go on living. Life comes from death. Emily, that is a truely and deeply profound statement that really got me. I just recently lost my elderly aunt and was thinking the same, considering how ill she was at the end. Blessings. By the way, are the photos your own work that I see once in a while? Some of them would make excellent classical music CD covers. If they are yours, would you consider releasing them for that purpose? Thanks. Jerald, I'm glad to hear your aunt is free from her pain now. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Email me about which photos you may be interested, and maybe I can help you out.