Aaron Copland News
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
- piano
- opera, symphony, classical music, ballet
- United States of America
- conductor, pianist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, music teacher, jazz musician, film score composer, music critic
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South Florida Classical Review
2024-03-17 16:21:06
Homespun Americana and refined Tchaikovsky were on the menu for the […]
2024-03-12 09:19:00
It's back: Classical Pride returns to the Barbican with a five celebration of LGBTQ+ composers and artists
After a debut last year, Classical Pride, artistic director Oliver Zeffman is back with a five-day festival from 3 to 7 July 2024, showcasing the breadth, diversity and depth of talent of LGBTQ+ composers and artists, past, present and future.The centre piece of the festival is a concert at the Barbican Hall where Oliver Zeffman conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in programme featuring a new commission from Jake Heggie with soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, Cassandra Miller's Round, Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3, ‘Song of the Night’, with tenor soloist Russell Thomas and LGBTQ+ Community Choir, Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Pavel Kolesnikov and music by Tchaikovsky and Copland.At Milton Court Concert Hall, the Fourth Choir, conductor Nicholas Chalmers will be focusing on the relationship between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in My Beloved Man featuring music by Britten, Barber, Imogen Holst, Barber and more.There is a free performance of Julius Eastman’s Gay […]
2024-03-08 18:03:34
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2024-03-08 09:15:00
A vivid account of Szymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams that never quite matched the terrific music
[…] LPO's current composer in residence, and the new work has as its title the Spanish word Raíces which means origins or roots, those in question being partly Leon's own as she is Cuban with a mix of Spanish, Cuban, Chinese and French in her heritage.It is a large-scale work for a big orchestra that began with strings playing high and with harmonics, presenting us with tantalising fragments of material. Short rhythmic phrases developed into a rather Copland-esque feel, and there was a sense of the material never quite settling down. There were up-tempo sections where the music was imbued with a sense of dance and moments of stasis, but despite changes of timbre and texture, the atmosphere of the piece remained one of restless expectation. Though the longed for climax, the synthesis of all those tantalising fragments of melody, never quite came.Following this we had Ravel's choreographic poem, La valse which […]
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