ProMusica Chamber Orchestra closes its 47th season at the Southern Theatre with a weekend centered on Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. The program includes a "Naked Classics" performance on May 15, ...

When Martha Graham’s ballet “Appalachian Spring” had its premiere on Oct. 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C., Aaron Copland was the voice of America. He had the gift to be simple. He wrote music that ...

It would be cute to think that Aaron Copland was depicting spring in the Appalachian mountains of North America. But sadly he wasn’t, as the work was completed long before the title was assigned.

On November 7 and 8, the Jacksonville Symphony will perform a Florida Blue Classical program celebrating both our country’s 250th anniversary and a people’s triumph over political authoritarianism. We ...

“’Tis a gift to be simple.” The celebrated melody of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts” and its optimistic theme are prominent throughout American composer Aaron Copland’s signature work, “Appalachian ...

Aaron Copland was a city kid, a Brooklyn-born son of Jewish immigrants, yet he managed to write a piece of music that captured the essence of rural America and has become a classic. "Mr. Copland, when ...

The very first version of Appalachian Spring - the complete ballet as it was composed for Martha Graham and scored for just 13 instruments - is one of the pinnacles of American music; it is Aaron ...

In 1980, to mark his 80th birthday, Aaron Copland conducted the Harmonie Ensemble in the original version of his Appalachian Spring, and worked with its director Steve Richman on a performance of his ...

This all-American work was written for ballet choreographer and dancer Martha Graham (indeed, the original name on the score is ‘Ballet for Martha’). For an original fee of $500 (roughly the ...