This musical “séance” summons ethereal, bygone spirits and influences in three remarkable works referencing the past to celebrate friends, forebears, and music itself. The program includes a rare performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Piano Trio – one of his earliest works, written in the years just before the iconic composer-conductor is first seen in the blockbuster new film Maestro. The concert also features Pulitzer Prize-winner John Harbison‘s musical “hallucination” entitled November 19, 1828, which imagines the Viennese master Franz Schubert’s journey from this world into the next, and Emmy Award-winner John Musto’s brilliant Piano Quintet, evoking Puccini, Bach, jazz, and other musical ghosts in a powerful, affecting tribute to a close colleague.



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This musical “séance” summons ethereal, bygone spirits and influences in three remarkable works referencing the past to celebrate friends, forebears, and music itself. The program includes a rare performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Piano Trio – one of his earliest works, written in the years just before the iconic composer-conductor is first seen in the blockbuster new film Maestro. The concert also features Pulitzer Prize-winner John Harbison‘s musical “hallucination” entitled November 19, 1828, which imagines the Viennese master Franz Schubert’s journey from this world into the next, and Emmy Award-winner John Musto’s brilliant Piano Quintet, evoking Puccini, Bach, jazz, and other musical ghosts in a powerful, affecting tribute to a close colleague.



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"A Standing Witness" has the potential to become one of the most influential compositions of this century" (Vermont Public Radio). This monumental collaboration between Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was created especially for the incomparable mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and Music from Copland House. The soaring music and probing poetry of this epic cycle is a sweeping retrospective tracing enormous social, cultural, technological, and political upheavals in the U.S. since the watershed year of 1968. There is no more timely or provocative work for this pivotal moment in American history; these are, as Opera News raved, "songs America needs to hear."

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"A Standing Witness" has the potential to become one of the most influential compositions of this century" (Vermont Public Radio). This monumental collaboration between Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was created especially for the incomparable mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and Music from Copland House. The soaring music and probing poetry of this epic cycle is a sweeping retrospective tracing enormous social, cultural, technological, and political upheavals in the U.S. since the watershed year of 1968. There is no more timely or provocative work for this pivotal moment in American history; these are, as Opera News raved, "songs America needs to hear."

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NPR's popular Tiny Desk (at Home) Concerts come to Copland's beloved studio (with his not-so-tiny desk in view!) for a short program featuring Music from Copland House performing selections from the Duo for Flute and Piano (composed in that very room!), Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Three Moods for Piano. The program is available for streaming beginning on November 13th, and then accessible indefinitely.

Music from Copland House artists: Carol Wincenc, flute; Curtis Macomber, violin; and Michael Boriskin, piano.

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