• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Donate

The Arts Fuse

Boston's Online Arts Magazine: Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theater, and more

  • Podcasts
  • Coming Attractions
  • Reviews
  • Short Fuses
  • Interviews
  • Commentary
  • The Arts
    • Performing Arts
      • Dance
      • Music
      • Theater
    • Other
      • Books
      • Film
      • Food
      • Television
      • Visual Arts

Aaron-Copland

Listening During Covid, Part 7: Celebrating the Diversity of American Music

New CD releases provide splendid performances of remarkable American music, from Barber and Bernstein to recently rediscovered Black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Hand of Bridge, Aaron-Copland, Arthur Farwell, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Candide, Carrie Jacobs-Bonds, Florence Price, Irina Meachem, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Kurt-Weill, Leonard Bernstein, London-Symphony-Orchestra, Lucas Meachem, Medea, Ralph Locke, Ricky Ian Gordon, Rubicon RCD, Samuel Barber, Shall We Gather, Stephen Foster, William Grant Still

Classical CD Reviews: Thomas Adès’s Orchestral Works, Aaron Copland’s Symphony no. 3, and Leonard Bernstein’s “Songfest”

A terrific release showcases the Boston Symphony Orchestra and composer Thomas Adès. Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony deliver a radiantly honest recording of Aaron Copland’s Symphony 3.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aaron-Copland, Deutsche Grammophon, Kirill Gerstein, Leonard Berstein, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, Naxos, SFS Media, Songfest, Thomas Ades, Totentanz

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1923-1955

This first group of mavericks all have their roots in the 1920s, but they demonstrate that George Gershwin’s way wasn’t the only way.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Aaron-Copland, Dana Suesse, Erwin Schulhoff, George Gershwin, JIPC, Leo [Leopold] Smit

Classical Music Review: New England Philharmonic

By Caldwell Titcomb Two important twentieth-century pieces and a work-in-progress made up the final program of the season offered by the New England Philharmonic at the Tsai Performance Center on April 26, with Richard Pittman on the podium. A painting by E. Prampolini inspired by Bela Bartok’s “The Miraculous Mandarin”

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Featured, Music Tagged: Aaron-Copland, Bela-Bartok, Carlos-rafael-rivera, Featured, menyhert-Lengyel, Music, Randall-Hodkinson, The-miraculous-mandarin

Classical Music Review: ‘An American Sampler’

By Caldwell Titcomb The Spectrum Singers, founded in 1980 and still led by John W. Ehrlich, presented a concert on March 29 entitled “An American Sampler.” Taking place in Emmanuel Church, the program was devoted to six composers of distinction, with particular emphasis on Aaron Copland (1900-1990) and Irving Fine (1914-1962). American composer Aaron Copland

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Featured, Music Tagged: Aaron-Copland, Caldwell-Titcomb, Ernst-Bacon, Featured, Irving-Fine, Kurt-Weill, Music, The-Spectrum-Singers

Primary Sidebar

Search

Popular Posts

  • Concert Review: Goose Earns Its Indie-Groove Wings Goose has seen its stock in the jam-band world soar at... posted on March 26, 2023
  • Rock Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen at TD Garden — Largely Choreographed and Celebratory So yeah, mortality was a heavy theme in Bruce Springste... posted on March 22, 2023
  • Book Review: “Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History” Even more impressive than the sheer amount of raw knowl... posted on March 14, 2023
  • Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Wolfe and Górecki Brimming with edge-of-seat intensity and fist-waving th... posted on March 17, 2023
  • Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello — Proudly Flaunting his Dependability and Unpredictability Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the pa... posted on March 10, 2023

Social

Follow us:

Footer

  • About Us
  • Advertising/Underwriting
  • Syndication
  • Media Resources
  • Editors and Contributors

We Are

Boston’s online arts magazine since 2007. Powered by 70+ experts and writers.

Follow Us

Monthly Archives

Categories

"Use the point of your pen, not the feather." -- Jonathan Swift

Copyright © 2023 · The Arts Fuse - All Rights Reserved · Website by Stephanie Franz