SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The Shaker Historical Society will present “’Tis the Gift to Be Simple: Aaron Copland Meets the Shakers in Shaker Heights,” a virtual program by musicologist Roger ...

Aaron Copland grew up in Brooklyn far from the mainstream elegance of Carnegie Hall. The son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he went to public school, took piano lessons, and was mitzvahed at the Kane ...

The big, lush and decidedly cinematic music delivers little that is particularly original or especially fresh. Instead, the ...

This year we're playing the music of Aaron Copland -- fitting, since Copland himself taught at festivals like this one. Of course what I'm telling you is really what my teachers told me.

Few people in the music world can match the accomplishments of Quincy Jones, who died on Sunday at the age of 91. Here are ...

In the last thirty-or-so years of his life, Aaron Copland lived in a house about 30 miles north of NYC, in the Hudson River ...

Coming up next is “Raisins and Almonds, Pomegranates and Roses: Jewish Folk Songs,” which features Kinneret Ely with ...

The Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra will perform an eclectic program Sunday, Nov 10 at 7:30 PM in the Dalton ...

I hope some of us will take a break from the exhausting news cycle and turn to the arts, which are exactly what we all need in the wake of this highly polarizing and divisive campaign and election ...

Read more Born in a humble street in Brooklyn, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, Copland is generally regarded as the first indisputably great American composer. The piano came easily to him and, ...

Instead, it used an offbeat bit of samba-jazz by Quincy Jones. This was an inspired choice. Jones’s 1962 song “Soul Bossa ...