Aaron Copland News

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, is pleased to announce the latest recipients of Discovery Grants from the Opera Grants for Female Composers program, made possible through the generosity of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

MUSIQA, two-time winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, presents Playing Havoc, featuring the Houston premiere of Kate Soper's Voices from the Killing Jar for soprano, ensemble and electronics. Soper, who both composed the work and performs as the solo soprano, will join the Houston-based musicians of MUSIQA in this groundbreaking, masterful work.

World renowned pianist IDIL BIRET is to perform in London at the Cadogan Hall on May 13th in an evening titled 'Mythical Trips to Romantic Lands' in which she will present favourite works of two giants of the romantic era in music, Schumann and Rachmaninov. 

A Lover's Heart, A Lover's World: Songs of W.A. Mozart, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, Kurt Weill, and Shanan Estreicher is a vocal recital featuring Soprano Stephanie Granade and Pianist Sarah Dutcher.

As previously announced, the acclaimed Second Act Series, which has presented an array of lesser-known musicals in concert, will present the short-lived Charles Strouse tuner Dance A Little Closer this spring at New York's Green Room 42 on Monday, April 16th at 7:00pm.

Birdland Jazz Club's schedule for March 12-March 18 includes the Donny Nova Band, Kurt Elling, Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, and more!

American Lyric Theater presents The Living Libretto: Opera in Eden on March 18, 2018 at 3pm at The National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, NYC.

Camerata Pacifica today announced the ensemble's 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons which, in collaboration with The Calder Quartet, will explore the three creative periods of Ludwig van Beethoven.

In 1958 Leonard Bernstein revolutionized music education through the medium of television with his famed Young People's Concerts shown on CBS. A few years later, in 1964 David D. Greer, an organist and choirmaster at the West End Presbyterian Church noticed that many neighborhood children (Bloomingdale District) seemed to have nothing to do and so began the Bloomingdale School of Music. Greer first began by offering Saturday morning classes for as little as 50 cents to community residents and now 53 years later under the direction of only it's third Executive Director, Erika Floreska, the school is still committed to the notion that music has the power to change people's lives and that all people should have access to high quality music instruction and performance.

Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, presents LA Phil/Beth Morrison Projects: PLACE on Monday, March 5, 2018 at 7:30pm.

Cellist Clarice Jensen, artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), releases her debut solo album, For this from that will be filled, worldwide on Miasmah Recordings on April 6, 2018. Building on a long and romantic tradition of solo cello repertoire, Jensen expands and confuses the familiar sound of solo cello through the use of effects pedals, multi-tracking, and tape loops recorded at variable speeds.

American Lyric Theater presents The Living Libretto: Opera in Eden on March 18, 2018 at 3pm at The National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $20.

Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, presents LA Phil/Beth Morrison Projects: PLACE on Monday, March 5, 2018 at 7:30pm.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its schedule for March 5-March 11. Check it out below!

The acclaimed Second Act Series, which has presented an array of lesser-known musicals in concert, will present the short-lived Charles Strouse tuner Dance A Little Closer this spring at New York's Green Room 42. The one-night-only concert reading will star Drama Desk Award-winner Ed Dixon (Georgie, Sunday In The Park With George, Les Miserables) in the role created by his lifelong friend and colleague George Rose. Three-time Tony Award-winning composer Charles Strouse will be on hand to meet fans and sign copies of his memoir, Put On A Happy Face, following the Monday, April 16th performance. 

Cellist Sang-Eun Lee comes to Pepperdine University's Raitt Recital Hall at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 8, 2018 at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts as the final artist of the 2017-2018 Recital Series. Tickets, starting at $28 for adults and $10 for full-time Pepperdine students, are available now by calling (310) 506-4522 or visiting arts.pepperdine.edu.

When soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci walked on stage at Zankel Hall for her recital the other night, I thought I had wandered into an Antonioni movie, with a ravishing diva (usually played by Monica Vitti) about to perform for a rapt audience. Then she opened her mouth and sang the first of a series of songs by Debussy (texts by Verlaine) and I knew I was in the right place: heaven.

Music inspired by transformations - life and loss, vice and virtue, and past and future - will resound throughout Copland House's 9th spring season of acclaimed concerts at Westchester County's magnificent Merestead estate in Mount Kisco, NY.

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