Copland News

The prestigious EMI Classics collection has seen the addition of another great album to its American Classics series, a set of four works by Aaron Copland that includes the Clarinet Concerto, the Music for the Theatre and the Dance Panels, plus 'Quiet City', a nine-minute jazz nocturne in one movement.

The Smoking Popes return to their Northwest-suburban roots - the Caterer brothers are from Lake in the Hills - as the closing act for this year's Lakeside Festival in Crystal Lake on Sunday night, July 5. Eve 6, another hit group from the '90s enjoying a second run, is the headline act on Saturday, July 4. The Lakeside Festival takes place daily ...

With record-breaking ticket sales last year and a great deal of hype for this year, the Colorado Music Festival is providing a model for how arts organizations can not only survive, but even thrive in a perilous economy.

The annual Independence Day sing-along concert at the Washington National Cathedral is being held Saturday at 11 a.m. WJLA anchor Doug McKelway will emcee the concert, which features Cathedral organists Scott Dettra and Christopher Jacobson.

What do Abraham Lincoln and Luke Skywalker have in common? Theme music, as it turns out.

Fenwick Island, DE- The Freeman Stage at Bayside continues its second season with a performance by the Delaware Symphony Orchestra Symphony on Saturday, July 11 at 7:00pm at The Freeman Stage at Bayside near Fenwick Island, Delaware.

Reschedule/Cancellation Policy: I ask that students give a courtesy of 24 hour cancellation.

$5-$20. 10 a.m. Monday: Young Peoples Concert, Patrick Reynolds conducts "Going Places" for ages 3 to 7. $7-$8. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday: CMF presents American bluegrass group Punch Brothers featuring mandolin player Chris Thile.

An outdoor concert scheduled Saturday, July 11 at the farm of 1950s presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II near Libertyville will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

It might seem a little early to be putting dates on the cultural calendar for 2010.

Sunday June 28, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots around Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn, the night that galvanized the Gay Rights Movement.

After the third visit from the Atherton police, the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps decided it would have to split up its outdoor rehearsal at Menlo College...A neighbor might call in a tornado warning...It's blisteringly loud...For 28 consecutive days, the Vanguard has been moving around California, staying one step ahead of all the noise ...

" The Magic is Back" features Martin Piecuch as conductor and traditional picnicking starting at 6 p.m. prior to the concert starting at 8 p.m. The program for each of the concerts is as follows: Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra by John Corigliano ...

When the Cincinnati Symphony Regional Pops Orchestra opens the Batesville Music and Arts Festival at Liberty Park Wednesday, June 24, its concert will be the perfect antidote to the recession.

Date: June 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 27 Time: 12:30PM & 1:30PM Location: Whitehall Terminal for the Staten Island Ferry Cost: Free Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances For A Variable Population presents Fanfare , a suite of dances performed by twelve dancers to acclaimed Minimalist composer Michael Nyman's brass compositions.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - James Earl Jones is no stranger to Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait." "I perform it every chance I get," the 78-year-old actor said in a telephone interview from his New York state home.

Jazz and popular music have heavily influenced this highly engaging recording of music for clarinet and piano .

Monadnock Music's 44th season begins with two free Beethoven Trail concerts at Sullivan United Congregational Church on July 9, 2009, 7:30PM and at Deering Community Church on July 10th at 7:30PM. Both concerts' Beethoven Trail offering is the String Quartet in E flat, Op.

The recent kick-off of the 50th anniversary celebration of New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts brought back memories to some of the complex's 1959 ground-breaking ceremony.

MUSIC Sarasota Orchestra: 'Across America!' The Sarasota Orchestra has had a wonderful season with exciting concerts, fine performances and innovative programs.