Host Scott Yoo and Cantor Daniel Mutlu discuss how Aaron Copland may have drawn inspiration from his Jewish roots and Cantor Mutlu performs “Mipnei Ma,” the source material for Copland’s “Vitebsk.” ...
In a lecture-recital on Thursday, May 14, Jacquelyn Helin explores the work of five composers who put the sound of America ...
ALL ARTS Vault: Aaron Copland Part 2 presents a 1961 program hosted by the composer. Take a trip into the archive for the second part of a 1961 program hosted by composer Aaron Copland. Speaking from ...
The new documentary 'Bernstein's Wall' explores the life and career of the titular maestro and touches on his close 53-year ...
“In those days,” Aaron Copland once said of his early studies, “music was like the inside of a great building that shut out the street noises.” Later Copland was to do more than any other composer of ...
Sunrise, celebration and brave new worlds, as the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Copland’s Rodeo – plus showstoppers by Bartók ...
The world of work has inspired some of our best-known classical music. From Schumann to Shostakovich, to one of the most respected American classical composers of the twentieth century: Aaron Copland.
When Martha Graham’s ballet “Appalachian Spring” had its premiere on Oct. 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C., Aaron Copland was the voice of America. He had the gift to be simple. He wrote music that ...
This month brings Barry Manilow and Martha Graham, Earth Day and Easter, as well as a pickle tour and a little night music. By Erik Piepenburg Richardson, the historian behind the newsletter Letters ...