b'PROGRAM NOTESAARON COPLANDFanfare for the Common ManCOMPOSER: Born November 14, 1900, Brooklyn, NY;died December 2, 1990, North Tarrytown, NYWORK COMPOSED: 1942WORLD PREMIERE: Eugene Goossens led the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on March 12, 1943, in Cincinnati.INSTRUMENTATION: 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba,timpani, bass drum, and tam tamESTIMATED DURATION: 4 minutesI n 1942, Eugene Goossens, music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO), commissioned Aaron Copland and eighteen other composers to write short, patriotic fanfares, and the CSO would premiere one at the start of each concert during their 1942-1943 season. Goossens asked the composers to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effortI am asking you this favor in a spirit of friendly comradeship, and I ask you to do it for the cause we all have at heart. Copland himself struggled with the title for his own fanfare but eventually chose the Common Man because, as he explained, it was the common man, after all, who was doing all the dirty work in the war and the army. He deserved a fanfare. When Goossens heard the title, he wrote to Copland, Its title is as original as its music, and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance. If it is agreeable to you, we will premiere it March 12, 1943, at income tax time. Copland replied, I [am] all for honoring the common man at income tax time. This fanfare became a favorite of audiences everywhere from the moment of its premiere, and Copland later used it as the main theme for the fourth movement of his third symphony.Coplands fanfare is the only one of the original eighteen to remain part of the orchestral repertoire. Indeed, Fanfare for the Common Man is probably heard more often outside the concert hall, thanks to commercials and sports events that have transformed this piece of classical music into a part of American pop culture. Appropriately, a number of versions of Coplands Fanfare have also become favorites and standards in their own right. Musicians as eclectic as Woody Herman, the rock bands Emerson, Lake & Palmer, the Rolling Stones, and Styx have all made their own arrangements. Coplands Fanfare has also been used on many television sports programs, both in this country and around the world, from the Olympics to ABCs Wide World of Sports. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENConcerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 61COMPOSER: Born December 16, 1770, Bonn; died March 26, 1827, ViennaWORK COMPOSED: 1806. Commissioned by and dedicated to Franz Clement, music director and concertmaster of the Theatre an der Wien.WORLD PREMIERE: Clement performed the solo at the premiere, which Beethoven conducted at the Theater an der Wien on December 23, 1806.INSTRUMENTATION: Solo violin, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons,2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and stringsESTIMATED DURATION: 42 minutessrsymphony.org2024-2025 Season 13'