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...Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Washington...
...Aaron Copland called it Ballet for Martha, as in Martha Graham. But she named it after a Hart Crane poem. Her ballet told the tale of a young marriage blossoming in pioneer-era Pennsylvania. In Copland's music, listeners heard not just an evocation of the Appalachians; they also heard the sound of a nation blossoming. The immediate impact is all the more amazing given the spareness of the composition. Framed by the Shaker folk song Simple Gifts, the music was originally scored for just 13 instruments because of the limited size of the orchestra pit at its opening venue...
...Arte Chamber Orchestra. Music by Beethoven, Mozart and Copland, followed by a wine and cheese singles reception courtesy of Pro Amore. Sunday, Jan. 12 at 3 p.m. Tickets $9-$42, available at the Harvard Box Office or call (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
...myself in the incredible artistic renaissance that was the Village in the 1950s--the Abstract Expressionist painters, the Beat Generation, the avant-garde playwrights. At the Cedar Tavern we'd meet up with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. At the Carnegie Tavern we'd sit around with Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter and talk music. Seeing my first Beckett play, my first Genet play--they were revelatory. They showed me that theater didn't have to be what I had known thus far. They opened things up for me and were probably responsible for my becoming a playwright...
...were always splendid people coming to Harvard to gift us with their talents: T.S. Eliot read “Four Quartets” in Sanders Theatre, Robert Frost read “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” in the Winthrop House Commons Room, and Aaron Copland played “Appalachian Spring” on the piano in Paine Hall...