Darlington meets Darlington at the Nürnberger Symphoniker – review
100 years and two months ago Aaron Copland’s Symphony for Organ and Orchestra was premiered by the New York Symphony Orchestra. At the end of the concert the conductor Walter Damrosch turned to the...
A Land Without Music? – Sound World’s brilliant new podcast series
Here’s a New Year’s Resolution for you! Check out Sound World’s brilliant podcast series called A Land Without Music? If like me, you love classical music and believe that it provides a force for...
Music for a Great City: The Outcry Ensemble at Smith Square – Review
Even though I have been to plenty of superb performances this year there are a few good ‘uns that I’ve missed. Work, the Olympics and a family holiday have scuppered John Wilson at the...
Copland 125 – A year long music festival in Bristol
For the last few years I have been thinking how I might celebrate the 125th anniversary of Aaron Copland’s birth. I am now ready to share the vision for Copland 125! The idea in...
Copland 125 – Aaron Copland speaks to me from the page
Aaron Copland died on 2 December, 1990. I had just turned 20 and was at Swansea University. I watched the BBC News and there was an obituary. I can remember the black and white...
The Dean and the Greatest: Aaron Copland and Muhammad Ali
I bet you didn’t realise there was a link between Aaron Copland and Muhammad Ali? Neither did I, but sometimes the stuff I turn up seems to be like buried treasure that is just...
The Tender Land at Piccolo Regio Puccini, Torino – Review
Like most people I have plenty of Bucket List entries that I want to tick off in my life. Many of these are of course associated with the music of Aaron Copland and one...
Bristolian Spring – Part 2: My roundup of the latest concerts in Bristol
I love my city – Bristol. For sure, there are things that annoy me – the lack of a mass transit system – why? And certain derelict buildings that have stood like eyesores for...
Bristolian Spring – Part 1: My roundup of the latest concerts in Bristol
At heart I’m a city boy. Even though my job involves working with farmers and I love country walks and nature spotting, I feel the need to be close to where culture is. I...
Which American composers have the most monthly listeners on Spotify?
A couple of weeks back I started wondering about the number of monthly listeners on Spotify that Aaron Copland gets. It was a short hop to comparing this number with that of his modernist...
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