[78-L] An Orchestra Rehearsal

Don Cox doncox at enterprise.net
Fri Mar 9 04:27:34 PST 2012


On 08/03/2012, David Lennick wrote:


> HOWARD HANSON did a few Mercury albums where he'd break down one
> composition (one of his) and then play it complete. I haven't listened
> to those.
> 
"The Composer and his Orchestra".

Not very exciting. Britten could have done a better job. Or
Bernstein.

The problem is that the worthy Hanson was not himself a brilliant 
orchestrator.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox at enterprise.net



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