Aaron Copland News

Birdland will kick-off their great week of programming with the following acts:

The Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now festival and The French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, present Silent Voices on Saturday, January 14 and Sunday January 15 at FIAF's Florence Gould Hall. 

Abrons Arts Center recently announced its Spring 2017 season, featuring a lineup of boundary-pushing theatre, dance and performance.

Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now invigorates New York City tonight, January 5, through January 15, 2017, with its fifth annual explosion of provocative and pioneering opera- and music-theatre, curated by co-founding producers, Kristin Marting (of HERE), Beth Morrison (of Beth Morrison Projects) and Kim Whitener (of HERE).

Beth Morrison Projects and HERE's fifth annual PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival begins this week, running January 5-15!

This New Year's Eve, LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER rings in 2017 with the New York Philharmonic as international opera star Joyce DiDonato and Tony Award winner Paulo Szot join Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert for an Enchanted Evening. Humorist and CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca hosts the broadcast from David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its lineup for New Year's week, December 26- January 1, featuring the Birdland Big Band + New Year's Eve Celebration!, Our Sinatra, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more. Scroll down for details!

Antonio Hart has been long recognized as one of the most talented instrumentalists of his generation. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Hart began his music studies with classical training at the Baltimore School for the Arts. His study of Jazz began at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston where in his sophomore year he became a Music Education Major. Afterwards, Hart also worked on a Master's Degree at Queens College, majoring in music, composition and performance. There he had the opportunity to learn from the great Jimmy Heath and Donald Byrd. After 12 years at Queens College Hart was promoted to Full Professor.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its lineup running January 2-8, featuring Marcus Roberts Trio, Randy Rainbow's Pre-Inaugural Situation, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, and more. Scroll down for details!

Aprons Arts Center has announced its Spring 2017 season, featuring a lineup of boundary-pushing theatre, dance and performance.

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate and South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (SDSO) are one of only five composer and orchestra pairs selected through a peer review panel process to participate in Music Alive, a national three-year composer-orchestra residency program of the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA.

This New Year's Eve, LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER rings in 2017 with the New York Philharmonic as international opera star Joyce DiDonato and Tony Award winner Paulo Szot join Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert for an Enchanted Evening. Humorist and CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca hosts the broadcast from David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

Berkeley Symphony and composer Anna Clyne have been chosen from a field of 59 applicant pairs to participate in a three-year composer-orchestra residency program, Music Alive, created by the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA. Berkeley Symphony and Clyne are one of only five composer-orchestra pairs to be selected by their peers, who represent a cross-section the U.S. orchestra world.

Five composer and orchestra pairs have been selected through a peer review panel process to participate in Music Alive, a national three-year composer-orchestra residency program of the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its lineup for New Year's week, December 26- January 1, featuring the Birdland Big Band + New Year's Eve Celebration!, Our Sinatra, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more. Scroll down for details!

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its January 2017 schedule, featuring The Marcus Roberts Trio, Joey DeFrancesco Quartet, Natalie Douglas, John Abercrombie Quartet,  Randy Rainbow, Danny Bacher, Nicolas King, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more. Scroll down for details!

The Aeolus Quartet and Musica Viva NY Artistic Director and pianist Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez are featured in Take Five-a concert of piano quintets and string quartets to benefit Musica Viva NY's artistic and outreach endeavors-on Sunday, January 29 at 5:00 p.m. at All Souls Church (Lexington Avenue and 80th Street).

The Los Angeles LGBT Center has announced a special one-night-only return of the internationally acclaimed singing string quartet Well-Strung. The four performers, who specialize in pairing classical compositions by Mozart, Bach, and Aaron Copland with pop hits by Green Day, Adele, and Taylor Swift, will perform at the Renberg Theatre for one show only on Friday, January 13, 2017 at 8pm.

Broadway performer and BackStage Bistro Award-winning recording artist Rebecca Spencer will celebrate her return to the Los Angeles concert scene when she headlines at The Sorting Room at The Wallis, LA's newest nightclub, at 8:00pm on Tuesday, December 13.

The Minnesota Symphony is moving toward featuring live soundtracks to popular films, which has been a big draw for audiences.  This season, they are performing live to five films, among some are 'It's a Wonderful Life', 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone', 'Disney-Pixar's Ratatouille', and 'ET'.