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So many of these efforts come off as lethally diffident and anxious to kindly.
Here, the orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, took the opposite approach.
(The Philadelphians recentlyrecorded that workalong with Prices Second Symphony.)
Coleman set Sonia Sanchezs raging 1995 poem (This is the voice of LaTanya.
Shaniqua …) to music, but the music transfigures the anger into celebration.
Prices First is sometimes discussed as a knockoff of DvoraksNew WorldSymphonyfrom 1893.
But I dont believe it was.
She had her own ideas of how to fuse the different traditions she bestrode.
She was hardly out of step.
Yet the score is larded with hard-won joy.
Copland was Jewish, gay, and from Brooklyn in an era when none of those were social assets.
