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Saturday, Oct. 29. Copland, Stravinsky, Concerto Competition. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the country, kicks off its 2005-2006 season with several blockbuster pieces, including Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $12-16; students $8-12. Tickets available online, at the Harvard Box Office, or by subscription...
...legend grew. In the 1930s, Henry Fonda played Lincoln on the big screen and stonecutters carved his face on Mount Rushmore; in the 1940s, Aaron Copland's magisterial Lincoln Portrait debuted; in the 1950s, Carl Sandburg held a joint session of Congress rapt with his speech that began, "Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is hard as rock and soft as a drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect." In 1963, TIME put Lincoln...
...reaches the autumnal age of 85 this week, but in every other respect Aaron Copland seems to be basking in an Appalachian spring. To honor the quintessential American composer, public television will broadcast live on his birthday an all-Copland retrospective by the New York Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta and Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein. The special performance will range from Copland's First Symphony (composed in 1928) to a newly orchestrated version of his recent piano piece, Proclamation, a span that delights the still octavely active octogenarian. "It is one of the most interesting programs of my work imaginable...
Sunday, Feb. 27. Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra presents Masterpieces in Miniature. Program includes Debussy, Shoenberg, Wagner, and Copland. 3 p.m. Sanders Theater. Tickets $9-45. Student rush $9 day of show. Tickets available through Harvard Box Office...
...managed to exclude any mention of the work's composer Hans Krasa, a Czech who died in Auschwitz in 1944. Can anyone imagine an article about the revival of A Long Day's Journey into Night without a reference to Eugene O'Neill? MICHAEL BORISKIN ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COPLAND HOUSE Cortlandt Manor...