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Utah SO, Maurice Abravanel - Louis Moreau Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics; Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (1995)

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Utah SO, Maurice Abravanel - Louis Moreau Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics; Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (1995)

Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics; Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (1995)
Reid Nibley, piano; Utah Symphony Orchestra; Maurice Abravanel, conductor

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This program offers three lively, colorful, and captivating orchestral works by two United States composers, born almost a century apart. These pieces exhibit the fruitful exchange and flow of musical material between North and South America that has long played a role in popular music, apparent not only in commercial song and dance music using Latin American melodies and rhythms but also in early jazz and blues where tango rhythms are so often heard, as in W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues. And both Gottschalk in the 1850s, close to the beginning of a creative American musical tradition, and Gould in the 1950s, when such a tradition had flowered considerably, show a combination of seriousness of approach with a popular touch.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) was born in New Orleans and died while touring Brazil. From childhood, Gottschalk showed remarkable musical gifts, able to repeat on the piano airs from the Meyerbeer, Donizetti, and Rossini operas that were regularly performed at the French Opera House in New Orleans, which he frequented. He was clearly influenced by the many rich musical forces of New Orleans, not just the French Opera House, but also Spanish folk music, French ballroom dances such as gavottes and quadrilles, dances of the African slaves like the Bamboula and Calinda heard in the Place Congo, Creole music, and the Latin American music of the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Gottschalk was sent to study in Paris at the age of 14, and his debut there, in 1845, was attended by many of the great figures of the era. Chopin praised him as a future "king of pianists" and Berlioz welcomed him as a "consummate pianist with sovereign power." He also entranced the French public with his compositions, like The Banjo, Le Savane, and La Bamboula, based on the African-American and Creole folk strains he had absorbed in his youth. After his return home, in 1853, he gave concert tours that were not only sensational triumphs in the large cities but also brought a first taste of classical music to many backwoods communities. In 1856 he gave concerts in Cuba with the phenomenal young soprano Adelina Patti; when the tour was over he stayed to wander about the Caribbean for six years. He composed a great deal, absorbing the singularly intriguing elements of West Indian music, and he was the first to introduce them into mainstream art music. His diary, Notes of a Pianist, reveals how close he felt to the scenery, people, and music of these islands. "The moon rose over the Sierra de Anafe. The crickets chirped in the fields. The phosphorescent arabesques of the fire-flies flashed suddenly through the thick darkness that surrounded us. The distant noises of the savannahs, borne softly by the breeze, struck on my ear in drawn-out murmurs. The cadenced chant of some Negros belated in the fields added one more attraction."

The last four years of his life were spent in South America, where, again, he was a spectacular success. But in Rio he contracted yellow fever and, at the age of 40, he died while rehearsing his piano piece, Morte.

It was in Guadeloupe in 1859 that Gottschalk composed A Night in the Tropics. The orchestral forces for which he planned the symphony were left fluid; there were times when his symphonic work was heard in a two-piano version, and times when a concert in a Caribbean capital brought together a band of three hundred players. As it lacks a true sonata-form movement, the work might be better described as an extended rhapsody on dance themes in two movements than as a "symphony." Gottschalk follows an honorable tradition: a North American paying his respects to Latin American music much in the spirit of many French composers — Bizet in Carmen, Chabrier in Espaсa, Debussy in Iberia, and Ravel in Rhapsodie Espagnole — to Spanish music. The first movement, Andante (6/8) is a continuously inventive development of a languorous, swaying melody, with the instrumentation, like the use of a solo trumpet near the beginning and near the end, lending an impressionist color. The second movement, Allegro moderato (2/4), is an explosion of Latin American rhythms, some foreshadowing the modern "samba," and in spirit much like the festival piece that closes Ravel's rhapsody.

While part of this symphony was long thought to have been lost, a recently discovered piano score has enabled the entire work to be reconstructed. The present performance is based on the score in the New York Public Library, Music Division, with the band parts condensed and the last 36 measures arranged by Gaylord Hatton, under the supervision of Mr. Abravanel.

Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra, tutti d'orchestra, Op. 67, was published posthumously by Espadero in France along with about twenty-five other works found after the composer's sudden death. Gottschalk had prepared arrangements for two pianos, piano four hands and piano solo. The Tarantelle typifies the bravura showpiece which Gottschalk, like every nineteenth-century virtuoso, had in his repertory. The version here is reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay.

Morton Gould was born in New York City on December 10, 1913. He has worked in the milieu of commercial music almost from his 'teens. Even while he was studying at the Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School), he was playing with dance bands, in movie houses, and on radio broadcasts. His brilliance as an arranger landed him top spots at the Radio City Music Hall and NBC, and by the time he was 21, Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra had performed his Chorale and Fugue in Jazz. Awards and academic honors came to him later in life, and numerous performances commemorated his 75th and 80th birthdays. In 1995, Gould was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

The jazz element is never far from Gould's music. His compositions have systematically delved for their material into American historical tradition and folk and popular areas, as in the Spirituals for string orchestra (EVC 9003), the Lincoln Legend introduced by Toscanini and the NBC Orchestra, the Concerto for Tap Dancer and Orchestra, the ballet Fall River Legend produced by the Ballet Theatre, and the Swing Sinfonietta which is a companion piece to the work on the present program.

The Latin American Symphonette was composed in 1940, first performed in 1941 in Brooklyn under Fritz Mahler's direction, and broadcast that year over a nationwide radio network. Gould's approach to the use of Latin American dance themes is neoclassical rather than impressionistic or atmospheric. The first movement, Rhumba, is in a lightly handled sonata form, with two themes and a short development section. The second movement is entitled Guaracha, which, as the composer explains, has connotations of both a dance and a drinking song, and he has used both ideas in constructing the movement. The third movement is a Tango, the dance which developed in the late 1800s in the drinking parlors and bordellos of Buenos Aires. By the end of World War I, the tango became the rage of Paris, and was finally accepted as a "society" dance in Argentina to the accompaniment of small orchestras. It is this form rather than the more commonly heard one that the composer uses in the Symphonette. The last movement is a brilliant finale using the Conga, which, like the rhumba of the first movement, is an Afro-Cuban dance.

S.W. Bennett

Utah SO, Maurice Abravanel - Louis Moreau Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics; Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (1995)



Utah SO, Maurice Abravanel - Louis Moreau Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics; Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (1995)



Reid Nibley, piano
Utah Symphony Orchestra
Maurice Abravanel, conductor

Originally recorded: December, 1962, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City

Tracklist:

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

A Night in the Tropics
(Symphony No. 1 "La nuit des tropiques")
01. Andante [12:38]
02. Allegro moderato [6:05]

03. Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra (arr. Hershy Kay) [7:19]


Morton Gould (1913-1996)

Latin American Symphonette
04. Rhumba [5:13]
05. Guaracha [3:20]
06. Tango [5:52]
07. Conga [5:49]


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Utah SO, Maurice Abravanel - Louis Moreau Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics; Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (1995)

Utah SO, Maurice Abravanel - Louis Moreau Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics; Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (1995)

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