Posted by John Swensen on February 01, 2002 at 12:36:50:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Copland's "Emblems" posted by Chuck Jackson on January 31, 2002 at 20:54:20:
I like Wellington's Victory; my brothers and I spent hours as kids listening to the Mercury recording of it, especially the flip side, with the extremely geeky commentary on the recording of the muskets, cannons, and howitzers at West Point (Phillips has released the complete recording of the Mercury LP on CD). I would be the first to agree that Wellington's Victory is not even in the same league as, say, Beethoven's late string quartets, but it is fun.
John "sometimes, music can just be fun" Swensen