You’ve got to hand it to the team at Post Classical Ensemble – the “experimental music laboratory” based in Washington DC are constantly opening new doors and sharing their enthusiasm for American music through...
Programmers at the City of Birmingham Symphony and Hallé Orchestra served up a late birthday treat for me this week! Two concerts on consecutive nights with lots of Copland and his 20th century contemporaries....
There are some Copland pieces that tend to take a lot longer for me to get to know, to appreciate and to love. I think this is down to a number of reasons. Prior...
If you’re a fan of a particular composer it is very likely that when you tune in to a performance you will usually get introduced to other pieces you may not know. Such was...
The majority of the “livestream” concerts I have watched during the Covid Lockdown have been pre-recorded and edited. Beethoven’s Legacy: Music Imitates Life at St Stephen’s South Dulwich by contrast was the real thing...
As a Copland fan I am constantly scouring the concert listings waiting for one of those rare gems from his early or late periods to get an outing, hopefully at a venue near me....
When I paid my $10 and settled down to watch the online ROCopera Song Cycle Festival event called Dickinson Songs I was expecting a fairly straightforward rendition of Copland’s 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson....
When I come across a new documentary or book about Copland what I yearn for is to find stones being lifted that normally aren’t and new nuggets of information being revealed. So I was...
Copland was a fabulously talented composer who had the ability not only to paint pictures with his music but also describe many complex emotions. When he wasn’t writing programme music for ballets and film...
If someone tells you something or gives you a list of things to remember chances are you’ll remember some of the first bits of what they said and some of the last things they...
