Aaron Copland, Something Wild - 35m 10s

Tracks & Durations

1. New York Profile	2:48
2. Park at night	1:27
3. Subway Jam	2:16
4. Mary Ann Resigned	2:01
5. Incarceration and Nightmares	7:06
6. Escape Through the City	7:23
7. Love Music	1:57
8. Walk Downtown	3:11
9. Episode on the Bridge	4:51
10. Mother Alone	0:57
11. Reunion	1:05

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Review

Composer of such iconic fare as Appalachian Spring and the ballets Rodeo and Billy the Kid, Aaron Copland was one of the undisputed giants of 20th century American music. But overshadowed by those crowd-pleasing exercises in Americana were a handful of film and TV scores and the fervent dedication to modernism that characterized the second half of his long career. This previously unissued film score (the film's distributors originally balked at a soundtrack release due to disappointing box office sales) to director Jack Garfein's meditation on home-scaled violence is a forceful mini-primer on both those neglected facets of Copland's rich career. Rescued from private session recordings preserved by the director and digitally remastered (Copland's own intended notes for the soundtrack are also included), the music here is bracingly jazz-tinged and unrelenting, an insightful, cacophonous portrait of the New York City of the composer's youth gone sprawling and hard-edged. Spiked by passages of pure percussion and powered by an angular rhythmic thrust, it's both a powerful reminder of Copland's true scope as a composer and a welcome tribute to his innate film scoring sensibilities. Its place in his canon shouldn't be underestimated; some of the themes here resurfaced later on his Music For a Great City. --Jerry McCulley

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