For the latest episode of WNYC’s Fishko Files, a radio show dealing with art and culture, Sara Fishko, the show’s host, tackled an old American classic – Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare For The Common Man” ...

He heard it all in his head: The drum-bursts like distant bombs, and then the somber trumpet fanfare, played seamlessly in unison by three trumpeters. Horns, trombones and tuba joined in a display of ...

In Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes, dancers of The Australian Ballet move through 22 episodes to music by legendary ...

Among the greatest composers America has produced, Copland developed a spare, open orchestral sound that was used so effectively by himself and others that it has come to be identified with the style ...

To celebrate spring and provide hope against the coming of the tax man, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) invites the greater Princeton community and internet followers to a free, online video ...

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And finally today, we're going to revisit a story from NPR's American Anthems series. You hear the word anthem, and you think of something big - something that unites listeners, a celebration - but ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by MUSIC REVIEW By Jeremy Eichler ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y., Aug. 21 - Aaron Copland espoused a creed of Shaker simplicity. The hymn he set in ...

It was only natural, some years into his tenure with Cincinnati, that his thoughts should drift to his own conducting legacy with his American band. It was for the 1942 and 1943 seasons that Goossens ...