Aaron Copland News

It's official! Welcome to the 37th annual Spoleto Festival USA! Can you feel it? This year's festival was kicked off at high noon today in front of City Hall, which has grown to be the iconic home for the festive opening.

In March, the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts in Louisville hosted the first of what will be four nationwide presentations of Music Unwound: Copland and Mexico , a multimedia project that infuses live performances with cultural and historical content.

The University City Symphony Orchestra , under the direction of Maestro Leon Burke III, held its final concert of the 2012-13 season Sunday at All Saints Church in University City.

The University City Symphony Orchestra , under the direction of Maestro Leon Burke III, will perform a free concert at All Saints Church in University City on Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m. The concert is open to the public.

There are many inspirational forces at work behind The Asheville Ballet's production of An Appalachian Romance .

Music by two of the best American composers of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, will conclude the 66th orchestral season of the West Suburban Symphony in Hinsdale Sunday afternoon.

The legendary drummer of Emerson Lake & Palmer and Asia had taken to the road to remind people that music played by real musicians does actually exist and that the songs he helped create with the aforementioned bands are just as intelligent and fascinating today as when they first hit record store shelves throughout the 70's a time when big music ... (more)

The Asheville Ballet will finish its 50th season with Friday-Saturday performances that include an original production of Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" in collaboration with the chamber music group Pan Harmonia.

The Woodland Community Band and River City Concert Band will present their annual Spring Concert at 7 p.m. Monday at the Woodland Community and Senior Center, 2001 East St.

Sherman Chamber Ensemble flutist Susan Rotholz and cellist Eliot Bailen, shown here, will be joined by pianist Margaret Kampmeier and violinist Carmit Zori in a concert Saturday, May 11 in Sherman, and Sunday, May 12, in New Milford.

Max Page, professor of art and history at the University of Massachusetts, was one of three scholars who to receive the Rome Prize for Historic Preservation and Conservation.

The Hartford Gay Men's Chorus will sing-in the spring with "Life Is Gay, and So Are They!" - a tribute to gay poets, composers, icons, idols and anthems, including such songs as "Being Alive" by Stephen Sondheim, "Stomp Your Foot" by Aaron Copland, "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga, and "A Stopwatch and Ordinance Map" by Samuel Barber.

The works of two very different composers will share the program at the South Metro Chorale's "Schubert Meets Copland" concerts this weekend in Prior Lake and Richfield.

The National Monument Foundation released a video opposing Frank Gehry's plan for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, featuring a new three-dimensional rendering of the controversial design.

The Highland Park High School Bands will present their annual spring concert at 7 p.m. Thursday in the main auditorium.

Acclaimed Western North Carolina chamber music company offers a rare spring gift.

There was a packed house as the Erie Junior Philharmonic orchestra presented its annual spring concert at Cole Auditorium on the campus of Edinboro University.

Iowa State University architecture professor Thomas Leslie has won the 2013 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.

In 41 years as conductor of the Portland Youth Philharmonic , Jacob Avshalomov listened to 10,000 auditions, molded the musical minds of 4,000 students and conducted 640 concerts.

Come Life, Shaker Life began as a Shaker hymn composed by Issachar Bates in 1835.