Morton Gould (1913 - 1996)

[Sef]

It could be worse Karl - I have a ghastly feeling that there is a version narrated by Margaret Thatcher - although this may have been just a nightmare I had.

I was at Grant Park in 2005 when Obama did it with the CSO. I remember telling my mum that he would be president one day - no one had even heard of him in the UK back then.

[kyjo]

I recently listened to Gould's Symphony no. 2 On Marching Tunes, which is a very interesting work. The first and third movements are more or less what one would expect - brash and populistic. But the work ends - rather surprisingly - with an extended slow movement (Memorial) which in its grave, somber mood almost approaches Shostakovich.