Emil de Cou Cou has recorded extensively including world premiere recordings of Claude Debussy's original version of Printemps Suite Symphonique, the orchestral version of Suite Bergamasque, Charles Griffes's The Kairn of Koridwen, and Elliot Goldenthal's Othello (ballet). For his ongoing work with NASA de Cou was awarded the agency's Exceptional Public Achievement Medal by Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. at the NSO @ Wolf Trap performance of The Planets in July 2012, the first musician to receive that honor. Emil de Cou Emil de Cou is an American conductor who became associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (John F. Kennedy Center for
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich) reconstructed form, consists of the following movements: Until recently, another eight-movement Suite by Shostakovich had been misidentified and recorded as the second Jazz Suite. This work is now correctly known as the "Suite for Variety Orchestra" (post-1956), from which the "Waltz No. 2" was made famous by the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut", and which has become associated with the "Jazz Suite No. 2". Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich) The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 () is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of