Copland News

There are many inspirational forces at work behind The Asheville Ballet's production of An Appalachian Romance .

The legendary drummer of Emerson Lake & Palmer and Asia had taken to the road to remind people that music played by real musicians does actually exist and that the songs he helped create with the aforementioned bands are just as intelligent and fascinating today as when they first hit record store shelves throughout the 70's a time when big music ... (more)

"Featured works include Copland's splendid Fanfare for the Common Man and Appalachian Spring, Gershwin's ever-popular Summertime from Porgy and Bess, with soloists Erin Collins and Paul Otway, and Rhapsody in Blue with piano soloist Darren Creech," states music director John Beaton.

The Hartford Gay Men's Chorus will sing-in the spring with "Life Is Gay, and So Are They!" - a tribute to gay poets, composers, icons, idols and anthems, including such songs as "Being Alive" by Stephen Sondheim, "Stomp Your Foot" by Aaron Copland, "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga, and "A Stopwatch and Ordinance Map" by Samuel Barber.

The National Monument Foundation released a video opposing Frank Gehry's plan for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, featuring a new three-dimensional rendering of the controversial design.

The Rider University Chorale, conducted by John McDonnell and accompanied by Brittany Montoro, will perform its annual spring concert on Friday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gill Memorial Chapel on the campus of Rider University in Lawrenceville .

Hear sounds of "The America West," with Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra and works by Copland and John Williams on May 3 and 4. Colorado Symphony Orchestra welcomes banjo master Bela Fleck on May 3 for insights into the instrument and the world premiere of his piece The Landing .

Acclaimed Western North Carolina chamber music company offers a rare spring gift.

The Orchestra of Northern New York will present master symphonic interpretations of Shakespeare's classic love story of Romeo and Juliet,: Leonard Bernstein's symphonic dances from West Side Story and Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture' at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Helen M. Hosmer Hall, SUNY Potsdam.

It was pure coincidence that the Oregon Symphony presented an all-American program at the end of an especially trying week in America, but Carlos Kalmar made explicit what was likely on many minds at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Saturday night -- that there was comfort in the music that we've come to hear as the sound of the national ... (more)