Copland News

It was not always this way. In the 1930s, '40s and '50s, the people who operated the trains, worked the machines and tended the farms were stars of film and fiction.

For more than three decades, working-class Americans receded as cultural heroes, replaced in the popular imagination by swashbuckling entrepreneurs, brilliant innovators and shrewd investors who make millions at the touch of a computer key.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE ANNIE MOSES BAND Barre Opera House 12/9-12/9/2013 The Annie Moses Band is an ensemble unlike any in America today.

Joe Sacco's latest graphic novel "The Great War" is one continuous illustration of the first day at the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916.

What are you doing on Sunday, Jan. 5? Fresh from its Christmas break, the Oregon Symphony is recording Aaron Copland's splendid Third Symphony, and you can listen in, for $20.

Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, guest conducts the Cleveland Orchestra this weekend in a program of Barber, Copland and Schumann.

It's the holiday season and along with all the shopping and get togethers we need to take time out for a culture break.

Martin Fein and Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein, from left, Celina Fein and Mindy Fein at the ADL Houston in Concert Against Hate.

The choirs of Elmhurst College will present a Fall Choral Concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, in Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel, 190 Prospect Ave. The concert will feature the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and Women's Chorus.

Sunday, Nov. 17. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra presents a 90-minute program of Copland, Bloch, and Nielsen.

"For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance.

Carl Palmer, who remains with prog-rock outfit Asia, is undertaking an ongoing tour to pay homage to his former band, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, announced his website.

Between the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and next year's 70th anniversary of D-Day there are a myriad of opportunities to acknowledge the role of music in and around the military.