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...semi-circle around the piano for the second song. The program continued with Nora I. Bartosik ’08 performing Aaron Copland’s “Piano Variations”—a piece that Bernstein is said to have played for composer Aaron Copland at their first meeting, beginning a mentorship that was to last for the rest of their lives. Bartosik performed the striking, dissonant piece with impeccable attention to detail, and the piece—said to “empty the room” when Bernstein performed it socially—instead...
...music world, however, was full of gifted and influential Jews at the time, such as Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Arnold Shoenberg, and Marc Blitzstein...
STRAVINSKY, COPLAND, & TCHAIKOVSKY Location: Sanders Theatre Date: Oct. 29 Presented by: The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
...Lincoln Portrait,” Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1”, and Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Known as “the dean of American composers,” Aaron Copland is famous for his orchestra and film compositions. Throughout his life, Copland created innovative pieces that were different from traditional European music. “A Lincoln Portrait”, written after Pearl Harbor was attacked, resonates with patriotism. The piece includes quotes from Abraham Lincoln’s writings that will...
...came too late for the orchestra to edit its season brochures, which cost about $900 to print. Current and past board members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) said that over the summer, Summers told the group that he would narrate the tribute to Lincoln, which was written by Copland in 1942. The group had previously planned to perform Italian composer Ottorino Respighi’s 1924 tone poem “Pines of Rome” at its Oct. 29 concert, but HRO altered its plans after Summers said he would narrate the Copland composition. More than a month...