Moab Music Festival was chosen by Sunset Magazine as one of the “Top Summer Events” of the West: “Chamber, jazz, and folk bands all sound pitch-perfect tucked into the grottoes of Utah’s rust-colored desert.” Read more at Sunset Magazine…
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Moab Music Festival Celebrates 20 Years!
For its 20th-season, the Moab Music Festival continues its love of “music in concert with the landscape” by celebrating the town of Moab and the music in equal parts! This year, there’s a performance of a new version of a…
Copland House Announces: CULTIVATE — Inaugural Concert of new Emerging Composers Institute
Join the August 5th kick-off concert for CULTIVATE, Copland House’s new, innovative all-scholarship, creative workshop for young composers at the start of their careers. For one week, five gifted, emerging American composers—Nathan Heidelberger, Roger Zare, Michael Djupstrom, Reena Esmail, and…
“You had to hear it…Fain was astonishing.”
The Reviews Are In — Tim Fain Spring 2012 tour : Chicago Tribune “…in many ways most rewarding,[this] piece on the bill also was the most recent — “Chaconne” from the Partita for Solo Violin that Glass composed for Fain…
Copland House Comes to Manhattan by Sedgwick Clark
The following post comes from Sedgwick Clark’s very own blog “Why I left Muncie” (a MusicalAmerica.com blog) For years I’ve been tempted by Music from Copland House concerts, at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in New York’s lower Hudson…
Preview: Oliveira in Evansville
On Saturday February 18th, Elmar Oliveira plays Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto with the Evansville Philharmonic. When choosing soloists for the concert, find out why music director Alfred Savia said, “Elmar was my absolute first choice.” Read more here.
WQXR – Q2 Feature: Aaron Jay Kernis – A Colorist of Maximal Proportions
WQXR-Q2 highlights the music of this Pulitzer Prize and Grawemeyer Award-winning American composer. Check out this thoughtful overview and listen to his music.
SF Chronicle lists Kernis Symphony No. 2 in Top 10 Classical CDs
San Francisco Chronicle reader John Rogers of New London, NH asked music critic Joshua Kosman for an introductory list “to the world of fine orchestral compositions of the last 50 years.” Kosman called Aaron Jay Kernis’ Symphony No. 2 “An…
Review: “Late Night with Leonard Bernstein” @ Music from Copland House at Merestead
On September 17th, Music from Copland House kicked off its 2011-12 season with its smash hit “Late Night with Leonard Bernstein.” The intimate program showcased the composer’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein, as she offered personal glimpses of the musical soirees her…
Review: Oliveira’s Masterful Interpretation
Elmar Oliveira,Violin Korngold: Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra Puerto Rico Symphony/Maximo Valdes October 15, 2011 “The Austro-Hungarian composer Erich W. Korngold is considered one of the ‘founders’ of cinematographic music. He emigrated to Hollywood in 1934, and [was]…