WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING

Hila Plitmann (amplified soprano) 1–7,
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta

"… A colleague suggested that I look into the poetry of the songs of Bob Dylan. Having not yet listened to the songs, I decided to send away for the texts only … and found many of them to be every bit as beautiful and as immediate as I had heard – and surprisingly well-suited to my own musical language … these would be in no way
arrangements, or variations, or in any way derivations of the music of the original songs, which I decided to not hear before the cycle was complete… I intended to treat the Dylan lyrics as the poems I found them to be. Nor would their settings make any attempt at pop or rock writing. I wanted to take poetry I knew to be strongly associated with popular art and readdress it in terms of concert art – crossover in the opposite direction, one might say. Dylan granted his permission, and I set to work."
John Corigliano

“Some discs are recommendable just because they present appealing, well-played programs in good sound at a great price. In such cases, comparisons are not the issue; we can enjoy them as a concert in our living rooms. JoAnn Falletta's new Copland disc is one of those.” American Record Guide