Rodeo

While Copland’s hugely successful celebration of the American West, Rodeo, has become an American classic, Dance Panels is barely known despite working beautifully as a concert work. Based on popular Mexican melodies, the glittering, even exotic El Salón Mexico is one of Copland’s most frequently performed works. Of his rhythmically complex Danzón Cubano, inspired by a visit to a dance hall in Cuba, in which there were two orchestras playing at both ends, the composer himself wrote: “I did not attempt to reproduce an authentic Cuban sound but felt free to add my own touches of displaced accents and unexpected silent beats.”

EP:n Rodeo kan ses som en andra och avslutande del efter förra årets album For Your I’ll Wait men är också en form av nystart, precis som Jills egen turné som hon åker ut på tillsammans med sitt band för att fira 10 år tillsammans. Det blir tio stopp totalt och turnépremiär den 2 augusti i Dalhalla.