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Just as Delius was delighted by Peter Warlock's birthday tribute I think Vaughan Williams would have loved this. Why not? it's more concise than the Tallis Fantasia and for my money its climax (5.30) is gorgeous beyond words.

Our Town too two masterpieces. Love them so.

the perfect music for a film noir!

This composer inspired Nick Drake and if you listen good you can hear the similarity❤️

Dawn Upshaw performs my favourite version of this incredibly beautiful and emotional work.

...and everybody thought that was the end of Max Biyalistock. Little did they know...

Watched once more. Thank you again. You have an eye for beauty.

Thank you for your pairing of Copland and Hopper. I love the work of both, and often equate one with the other. Very gratifying that someone else does too. Such an evocative video.

Whoever is reading this, we don't know each other and probably never will, but I wish you all the best in life and all the happiness in the world ...

Anyone know the name of the bridge at 5:05? This is such an awesome video to go along with an outstanding piece of music.

If you're interested in the song, its history and in Vaughan Williams feelings about folk music, I recommend reading 'The captain's apprentice - Ralph Vaughan Williams and the story of a folk song' by Caroline Davison. Pub. Vintage 2022.

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His music just makes me feel so good.

Nothing like the UK!!

Great views of Europe countrysides!!!

I delivered newspapers in the early morning when I was a kid. This music reminds me of the feeling I experienced when the rest of the world was sleeping and all the artifice of the built environment layed dormant waiting for the day to start.

In the early '50s, CBS-TV broadcast an hourlong Sunday afternoon program called 'Omnibus' that was hosted by Alistair Cooke. On one of the early programs, it offered a profile of a composer whose seemed, in the minds of the show's producers, to capture the spirit and soul of America. The composer was Aaron Copland. It's been many, many years since I saw that show, but the snippet of Mr. Copland's music aired just may have been Letter from Home. I heard his works performed live a dozen times and I attended his 80th birthday concert at the Kennedy Center in 1980. Mr. Copland and Mr. Bernstein each had a chance to conduct the National Symphony.

I want this played at my memorial. Love you Arron Copland. My Hero.

I am an Aussie but have traveled through the American countryside! It seems to me that Copeland gets America better than any other composer! You yanks should regard him as a national treasure!!

So much joy from English composers of this era. Williams, Walton, Elgar, Frank Bridge, Ronald Binge (The Watermill),Hubert Clifford (Curly Locks, Robert Farnon (Lots). Thanks for this clip N1.

A wonderful compilation of music and image I only discovered on youtube this week. Love Aaron Copland and Edward Hopper, along with the also amazing photographs by the likes of Berenice Abbott.

I was introduced to this piece from an article in the Journal of the RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SOCIETY, in which Thomas Cannings' piece is compared with the earlier, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Both are utterly beautiful pieces of music.

This piece is so touching with the child talking about being alive in Knoxville in the summer of 1915. This was just before the U.S. entered WWI (that wasn't until 1917). It evokes a lulling and lyrical sense of peace and beauty, even the loud auto. But there is one line in the poem that sets off this idyllic time presented in the text. It's when the narrator says "By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth..." This line is very different from the rest of Aggee's text. It is a child who is narrating the piece, but there is a timelessness in the acknowledgment and poignancy of loss and sorrow, especially told with a child's voice., that makes everything else in the text special and precious.

Thank you for this. I like this version. You don't say who the soprano is. My favorite recording of this piece is by Sylvia McNair. Thank you for sharing this. ua-cam.com/video/WG8_nLJ6238/v-deo.html

wonderful piece of music and the Hopper painting are perfect accompaniments. Does anyone have information about the photographer or photographers? The photos are also excellent and fascinating. I would love to see more.

...Mr. Lewis...With respect, I would be quite remiss in failing to thank you...And extend my compliments for your work on Aaron Copland...He is one of the Giants of American Art..."Quiet City", from my perspective, is perfection...Rarely done by a Human...Its ability to speak to you...And give you calmness is extraordinary...It carries the emotions that were once spread all over this Country...Goodly, basic, inquiring, compassionate emotions...And We have, somehow, managed lose our embrace of them...And they are gone from us...The pairing of Mr. Copland and Mr. Hopper could not be more natural...I think that , in their respective disciplines, They were both seeking the same Horizon...To a large degree, they are joined at the hip...When I need reassurance, calmness, a check on myself; I listen to "Quiet City"...It would have been a wonderful time of learning for me to have had a conversation with Mr. Copeland...Pax.

A miracle ... Meant to be ... Several works of the most profound, wonderful, beautiful art ... Thank you ...

Reminds me of someone so very dear to me. Exquisite, ethereal. Healing. wow / My diminutive joy.

Copland at his best. The slides also add a lot . . .

That was absolutely beautiful from beginning to end,and I was just thinking of Ed Hopper this morning. Fantastic!

Just beautiful. An ideal mix of artistry. I did not know Andrew Wyeth's work. He was sparing with colour, for sure - but that seemingly was his way. There is a sort of longing in the paintings, a longing echoed by the sadly glorious music of Delius. Mustn't forget the delicacy of Eric Fenby's arrangements from the original unaccompanied voices of 'To be sung of a Summer night on the river' which are also well worth hearing. Thank you for uploading this delightful work.

Copland is so visual.

Estas increíbles imágenes componen una extraordinaria suite, llena de magia y belleza; complementan estupendamente la poética composición musical. MIl gracias!

Copland's music and William Wyler's classic film The Best Years of Our Lives stir my emotions like no other. My dad spent 11 months in a German prisoner of war camp and went through 4 Death Marches during WWll. He was the most well adjusted and compassionate man I've ever known.😢

Hopper. Thank You for that. This piece emotes what we all experience, those who came to streets, paved with dreams of the last, this one and many more centuries. Maybe that's why Copeland never gets old. This also sounds like the city, or maybe the horns are calling.

Que belíssimo vídeo, faz jus à inspiradora serenidade das Aquarelas de Delius e de Wyeth.

Just the BEST! St Lukes and Dawn Upshaw wonderful!

What a heartfelt work by America’s finest composer.

How marvellous this is ! THANK YOU, Mr Lewis

The dress and some of the photos looks like from 1905, and not World War II vintage but it was a pretty good montage I guess

When America was great.

New York, at the same time the promise and cesspool for immigrants.

Sylvia McNair's version is the other one

A marvelous panoply of images.

Thank you for the introductory material for your post; i was not clear on the Beethoven connection 🙏

the late year lies down the north, all is healed , all is health. High summer holds the earth ,hearts all whole. Another wonerful pairing of Agee and Barber

As I drive slowly ,this summertime, past houses with old fashioned gardens, i remember sitting on my back porch in St Louis with my neighbor, stringing beans, extracting honey from hives and , all the time , this piece is singing in my mind

i cry...

Thomas Canning was indeed directly inspired to compose this piece based on his impression of Tallis Fantasia by Vaughn Williams....of course, they do not sound alike...but the heart, intonations and spirit of the composition is akin... and renders justice to the ethereal artistry.

This is the recording that made me fall in love with this piece 30 years ago when I checked it out one summer from the local library.