Copland News

It's holiday music time for area classical organizations, with plenty of opportunities to attend concerts throughout the suburbs over the next two weeks.

In 1946, an unknown composer from Boston gave the first big concert of his music in New York City, and touched off a bit of a revolution.

Starting work when most people are getting ready for bed suits Eric Ladau just fine.

As I noted in my review of The Starry Messenger , Kenneth Lonergan went eight years between plays, and many of his admirers, myself among them, had long since started to fear that he was falling victim to the same curse of sterility that previously struck down such artists as Ralph Ellison and Aaron Copland, both of whom fell silent at the peak of ...

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

Separate each tag with a space: beat bass processed hard. Or to join 2 words together in one tag, use double quotes: "field recording" Description by sandyrb I wanted a drum which was like the huge drums used in "Fanfare For The Common Man" by Miles Copland .

The Wicks Opus 4538 Pipe Organ that will be dedicated Sunday morning at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Gulfport is a nearly $200,000 work of love and faith by a 250-member congregation.

This weekend was Aaron Copland 's birthday. He's one of my favorite composers. He's the guy who wrote "Appalachian Spring" and "Fanfare for The Common Man." He also wrote this: Which continues here: The amazing thing about his story, of course, is that Copland was questioned by Roy Cohn regarding his Communist sympathies.

Guest conductor Phil Snedecor and the River City Brass Band give exciting freshness to some "American Classics" in the current series of concerts.

BRIDGEWATER - The Bridgewater College Symphonic Band will present a fall concert at 3 p.m. Nov.

The UNC School of the Arts Wind Ensemble, conducted by Michael Dodds, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Crawford Hall on campus.

The Eastern Michigan University Symphony Orchestra will bewitch audiences with the 12th installment of its annual Halloween Concert tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Pease Auditorium.

For frenziedly creative polymaths, the French may have Jean Cocteau, but the Jews have Belarus-born Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, who wrote poems, fiction, ethnography and plays under the pen name S. An-sky . Of these, indubitably the most famous is An-sky's still-popular 1914 Russian play "The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds," the story of a young bride ...

Vivian Perlis, with Aaron Copland, collaborated with the composer on his memoir.

Master Classic Series #2- Presented by the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra Horacio Gutierrez will be performing the Serge Prokofiev's- Concerto No.

The Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra opened its 43rd season with a trio of diverse compositions played much to the delight of the audience that filled Appleton's Fox Cities Performing Art Center on Saturday night.

Since an assassin's bullet cut short the life of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, he's become an iconic figure in American history, as tall and imposing as the statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Today, Lincoln is hailed as "Honest Abe," the Great Emancipator who ended slavery and led the nation through the darkest hours of the ...

"I'm in great health!" says violinist Joan Kwuon. So, probably, are other women because of her gift of her musical talents.

There is history made and history observed. Next week, the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra and the Allentown Band will celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln 's birth with a concert historic in its own right.

A typical concert by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has one guest performer. Next weekend's will have 17.