The 71st season of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra is already at the halfway point. With only three more main season shows ...

Richardson, the historian behind the newsletter Letters From an American, discusses preparing for the narrator role in Aaron Copland’s piece. By David Allen The composer John Adams led the New York ...

Has anyone checked Aaron Copland's grave for signs of vigorous rolling? Copland, the great American composer, who was openly gay and whose politics were socialist-leaning, keeps showing up on the ...

♪♪ -Coming up on "Great Performances"... I'm Scott Yoo. I'm at a teaching festival, where the pros help guide the next generation. This year we're playing the music of Aaron Copland -- fitting, since ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Few people have influenced and supported the Buffalo music community more than Cameron Baird (1905-1960), the elder son of a Buffalo industrial family considered by many the city’s ...

I grew up thinking of Aaron Copland as the musical voice of America. Like most everyone, when I hear Copland's music, I see the majesty of the Grand Canyon: I feel my breathing expand and relax with ...

On Tuesday, May 26, 1953, Aaron Copland appeared as a witness before the Senate committee headed by Joseph McCarthy. Summoned because of his past relationship with the American government—he served as ...

Host Scott Yoo and pianist John Novacek discuss Copland’s career as a film composer. Copland was a firm believer in “less is more” in terms of scoring, an idea that can be heard in scores today. To ...

“In those days,” Aaron Copland once said of his early studies, “music was like the inside of a great building that shut out the street noises.” Later Copland was to do more than any other composer of ...

There is something foundational about composers recording their own music. Though the necessary technology didn’t exist to capture the likes of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and others who performed much of ...

At New York City Ballet, Peck’s “Copland Dance Episodes” brings the composer’s three classic ballet scores under one roof, at last. By Joshua Barone and Mark Sommerfeld Vivian Perlis founded Yale’s ...