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The City (review)

The City (review) MULTIMEDIA REVIEW The City. Lewis Mumford, script. Ralph Steiner and Willard von Dyke, cinematography. Aaron Copland, music. 1939. Soundtrack recreated by Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez, music director, Joseph Horowitz, artistic director. 2009. Distributed by Naxos. New soundtrack (music and narration) recorded in Dolby Digital / DTS Surround. 132 minutes including bonus features. In 2005, Naxos released a highly praised DVD of two classic Pare Lorentz documentaries, The River (1936) and The Plow that Broke the Plains (1937), with new recordings of their legendary Virgil Thomson scores. The creative forces responsible for this venture--Joseph Horowitz, Angel Gil-Ordóñez, and the Post-Classical Ensemble--have now turned their attention to Aaron Copland's music for the 1939 film The City. Once again they have transformed the viewer's experience of an aged film by replacing the monaural soundtrack with new narration and a high-quality stereo recording of the music. There are numerous excellent justifications for such an undertaking. First, there is no modern recording of this important Copland score. Joseph Horowitz, who is one of the United States' leading cultural historians, describes the score in his liner notes as "arguably, Copland's highest achievement as a film composer, but far from his best-known." The City marked http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

The City (review)

American Music , Volume 29 (4) – Mar 23, 2011

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MULTIMEDIA REVIEW The City. Lewis Mumford, script. Ralph Steiner and Willard von Dyke, cinematography. Aaron Copland, music. 1939. Soundtrack recreated by Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez, music director, Joseph Horowitz, artistic director. 2009. Distributed by Naxos. New soundtrack (music and narration) recorded in Dolby Digital / DTS Surround. 132 minutes including bonus features. In 2005, Naxos released a highly praised DVD of two classic Pare Lorentz documentaries, The River (1936) and The Plow that Broke the Plains (1937), with new recordings of their legendary Virgil Thomson scores. The creative forces responsible for this venture--Joseph Horowitz, Angel Gil-Ordóñez, and the Post-Classical Ensemble--have now turned their attention to Aaron Copland's music for the 1939 film The City. Once again they have transformed the viewer's experience of an aged film by replacing the monaural soundtrack with new narration and a high-quality stereo recording of the music. There are numerous excellent justifications for such an undertaking. First, there is no modern recording of this important Copland score. Joseph Horowitz, who is one of the United States' leading cultural historians, describes the score in his liner notes as "arguably, Copland's highest achievement as a film composer, but far from his best-known." The City marked

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Published: Mar 23, 2011

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