Four years ago
a post on this blog presented an American Decca recording of film music by Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson from the Little Orchestra Society and Thomas Scherman. Here is a companion post with more music by the same composers and the same performers, also from 1952.
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This time around we have a 10-inch LP with music from Copland's score for the film
Our Town, and a suite from Thomson's music for
The Plow That Broke the Plains.Scherman was not terribly well regarded as a conductor during his lifetime (Ned Rorem tells the story of walking out on a Scherman performance of Rorem's own music), but in my view these are accomplished performances of most affecting music, beautifully recorded. The Decca pressings are not very good, but hopefully not too distracting.
