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Aaron Copland

  • #ClassicsaDay #Classical1921 Week 1

    Jan 8th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #Classical1921, #ClassicsaDay, Aaron Copland, Charles Villiers Stanford, Classical music, Nicolai Medtner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Theodore Ardorno, Twitter

    What better way to celebrate a new year than with a look back? In this case, the Classics a Day team decided to go back 100 years. For January 2021 the challenge is to post works that were completed in or recordings released in 1921. It turns out there was quite a lot going on […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #PoetryMonth – Week 2

    Apr 13th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #PoetryMonth, Aaron Copland, Claudio Monteverdi, Gustav Mahler, John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Twitter

    What’s the connection between classical music and classic poetry? That was theme some of us decided to explore with #ClassicsaDay. For April 2018 we posted examples of settings of poetry in classical music, works inspired by poetry, and more. Here’s an annotated list of the works I posted for the first week of #PoetryMonth. Gustav […]

  • susan Rotholz flute Kampmeier

    Rotholz Tapestry of American Flute Duos

    Jul 21st, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Aaron Copland, Bridge Records, CD Review, Chamber music, Contemporary classical, flute, Lowell Liebermann, Robert Beaser, Robert Muczynski, Susan Rotholz

    The album is titled “American Tapestry,” but it’s no crazy quilt. The four duos for flute and piano Susan Rotholz and Margaret Kampmeier perform fit nicely together. All are tonal after a fashion, giving the program coherence; and yet each differ in character to give the listener real variety. Robert Beaser takes a simple theme […]

  • Composing America Lark Quartet Bridge

    Composing America: Lark Quartet’s study in contrasts

    Mar 31st, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Aaron Copland, Bridge Records, CD Review, Chamber music, Composing America, Contemporary classical, John Adams, Paul Morevic, The Lark Quartet, William Bolcom

    The Lark Quartet’s latest release is a broad sampling of American string quartet music — and it’s broad in many ways. First, it ranges from the  1928 modernism of Aaron Copland, through the minimalism of John Adams, the populist sound of William Bolcom and ending with the more formal writing of Paul Moravec. It’s also broad […]

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