Short Takes : Concert to Celebrate Copland
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on Wednesday will play Aaron Copland’s 1925 experiment with jazz, “Music for the Theater,” to mark the composer’s 90th birthday.
The concert also features a nocturne from 1939, “Quiet City,” the lively “Three Latin American Sketches” from 1972 and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Appalachian Spring,” which Copland composed for choreographer Martha Graham in 1945.
National Public Radio plans to tape the concert at Ordway Music Theater and air the two-hour program sometime this month.
Copland, who was born in Brooklyn, lives in Upstate New York and is in failing health.
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