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The World of Nick Adams at the Paley Center of Media

There are some Copland pieces that are harder to hear than others. Many are published but underplayed gems. Then there are numerous unpublished pieces of juvenilia (pre 1920) and incidental music from plays produced...
Gavin Stewart and Vanessa Owen of the Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance danced to Aaron Copland's Quiet City

“Quiet City” as an artistic response to the COVID-19 pandemic

If you have ever been moved by the Copland’s 1940 master work Quiet City you will be absolutely blown away by this wonderful collaborative response to Covid-19 between Winston-Salem Symphony, Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance,...
A radio in a kitchen

The Copland Radio Top 10 Countdown (in the UK anyway)

I love BBC Radio 3 for lots of reasons. It has more live music than any other station, they play a wide range of music that covers both classical and jazz with something new...

Quiet City

I absolutely love this version of Quiet City. The original incidental music from the Irwin Shaw play recreated by saxophonist Cristopher Brellochs.