tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post4495562775349369196..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: One of the most imaginative talents in 1940s AmericaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-89772857856430699282016-03-07T07:27:01.272+00:002016-03-07T07:27:01.272+00:00John McLaughlin Williams writes to say that the pi...John McLaughlin Williams writes to say that the piano work played by Bonds in 1933 would have to be Carpenter's Concertino; it is the only designated piano and orchestra work by the composer, though the piano features prominently in the instrumentation of most of his orchestral scores.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-91755256242364266312016-03-06T21:15:43.611+00:002016-03-06T21:15:43.611+00:00Email received:
Thanks for sharing this link with...Email received:<br /><br />Thanks for sharing this link with me, I'm happy to learn about this recording of Carpenter's music. It is probably well known to you all, but when researching for my Price documentary I learned that at the 1933 concert at the Chicago World's Fair in which Price's Sym. in E minor was premiered, that Margaret Bonds also performed a work by John Alden Carpenter. I can't recall the name right now, something like a Divertimento for Piano and Orchestra. <br /><br />Best Wishes,<br /><br />Jim GreesonPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-12148248452503441132016-03-06T09:40:57.469+00:002016-03-06T09:40:57.469+00:00I have never met John McLaughlin Williams and have...I have never met John McLaughlin Williams and have no professional connection with him whatsoever. But John has become a close virtual friend because we share many musical passions, and he has made many invaluable contributions to On An Overgrown Path, notably recording Philippa Schuyler's piano miniatures specially for the blog and coupling them with an erdudite commentary - http://goo.gl/WFsStn<br /><br />Against that background I would draw attention to this passage from the MusicWeb International review cited in this post of JMW conducting John Alden Carpenter's music: <br /><br />'Recording, performances and documentation are each admirable. The conductor is to be watched for the future. It would be a pity if he were to be lost to Naxos's pioneering series however we must not be surprised if his name is soon linked to the likes of the Dallas or Minnesota orchestras. I see that he has already recorded Henry Hadley's Fourth Symphony for a later Naxos disc. He does not lack adventurous and risk-taking spirit. As a violinist he has championed such utterly unfashionable repertoire as the Violin Concertos by Coleridge Taylor (1998 at Harvard), the Bax (Boston) and the Jongen (Longwood).'Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com