Songs America Loves to Sing: Music from Copland House
Recently hailed by the New York Times for “illuminating essential truths about the music,” the Music from Copland House ensemble returns to Caramoor in Songs America Loves to Sing, a vibrant, wide-ranging program featuring concert works inspired by the sounds of country, jazz, folk, ragtime, tango, and spirituals. Includes music by Aaron Copland (selections from Old American Songs) Pulitzer Prize-winner John Harbison (Songs America Loves to Sing), Mark O’Connor (selections from Poets and Prophets, inspired by Johnny Cash), Pierre Jalbert (Crossings, a Copland House commission), John Mackey (Breakdown Tango), Hale Smith (his classic setting of Amazing Grace), and Florence Price (Gonna Wake Up Singin’), as well as the pioneers of ragtime (Scott Joplin) and jazz (W. C. Handy).
Copland Old American Songs (selections)
O‘Connor Poets and Prophets (selections)
Harbison Songs America Loves to Sing
– Intermission –
Jalbert Crossings
Songs by Florence Price, Scott Joplin, Hale Smith, and W. C. Handy
Mackey Breakdown Tango
James Martin, baritone
Carol Wincenc, flute
Meighan Stoops, clarinet
Gary Levinson, violin
Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello
Michael Boriskin, piano
Event Location and Ticket Information
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
149 Girdle Ridge Road
Katonah, New York 10536
Handicap Accessible? Yes
Date: Friday, July 22, 2016
Times: 8:00 pm
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Presenter: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
Presenter Phone: 914-232-1252
Presenter Website: www.caramoor.org