{"id":44593,"date":"2024-07-03T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdf37ca5-f79b-4ef5-8766-879d46c87606"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:37:42","slug":"anderson-to-zappa-via-ellington-and-ives-an-a-to-z-of-american-music","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/anderson-to-zappa-via-ellington-and-ives-an-a-to-z-of-american-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson to Zappa, via Ellington and Ives: an A to Z of American music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Wednesday, 03 July 2024 at 13:15 PM<\/p>

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To consider classical music in North America is to come to terms with its vast size and diversity.<\/strong> <\/p>

The US alone has some 120 professional opera companies, 1,600 orchestras, and thousands of choruses. The story of classical music on this continent is one intertwined with its civil rights struggles, its media and entertainment industries, its religion and entrepreneurial zeal. <\/p>

It\u2019s a landscape of brash juxtapositions \u2013 where Van Cliburn<\/a><\/strong> could win a Russian piano competition and receive a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, and where soprano Ren\u00e9e Fleming could sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.<\/p>