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Aaron Copland

  • Keith Lockhart, conducting the Boston Pops at Tanglewood, facing the orchestra with a smile
    Episodes
    Keith Lockhart's Pops Playlist
    Celebrating 30 years as the conductor of the Boston Pops, Keith Lockhart tells the stories behind his recordings with the Pops, from tributes to Glenn Miller and Richard Rodgers to the inimitable film scores of John Williams!
  • A view from the orchestra, looking over a sea of sheet music and stands. Andris Nelsons stands on a podium with his arms in the air. Behind him, a see of audience members and the vastness of Symphony Hall.
    Copland, Barber, Snider, and Simon Kick Off the BSO's 24-25 Season
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra launches a new season with an all-American program of works by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and inaugural BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon.
  • Thomas Warfield has short, curly, purple hair. He wears a blue fur coat and smiles at the camera. Paul Lewis has dark curly hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark pea coat and stares intently at the camera. Andris Nelsons has dark brown hair and a beard. He wears a navy suit and looks to the left of the camera.
    Koussevitzky’s Legacy at Tanglewood
    Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in works by Copland, Stravinsky, Thompson, and James Lee III, each a reflection of Serge Koussevitzky’s original vision of the role of Tanglewood in the music world.
  • Xian Zhang, body turned to her right, faces straight with a neutral expression
    Copland and Dvorák at Tanglewood, with Xian Zhang and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Xian Zhang leads the BSO in a pastoral program including Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World."
  • The young Leonard Bernstein, composing.
    Blog
    A Bernstein Discovery x2
    Brian McCreath
    Following its world premiere in 2021, a nearly forgotten work by Leonard Bernstein has now been released on a commercial recording, along with an additional movement of the piece discovered in 2022 and rarely heard music by Bernstein’s mentor, Aaron Copland.
  • Cowboy working
    Blog
    Cowboys of Classical
    Laura Carlo
    July 22nd is National Cowboy Day. We've got music for that!
  • Phoenix Orchestra, dressed in red and black, mid-performance on the stage at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.jpg
    Stories and Tales with Phoenix Orchestra
    On WCRB In Concert with Phoenix, Joshua Weilerstein conducts the chamber orchestra in a program that imagines far-off places and fantasy lands, from a fall through the looking glass in Caroline Shaw's "Entr'acte" to a night of revelry in Luigi Boccherini's Madrid and beyond.
  • Hollywood sign
    Blog
    Classical Music Goes to the Movies
    Laura Carlo
    In the midst of the Oscar awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, classical music has always been a star performer.
  • Michael Tilson Thomas
    Copland’s Third, with the BSO and MTT at Tanglewood
    Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the Berkshires to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Copland’s inspirational Symphony No. 3, and pianist Alexander Malofeev is the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s mighty Piano Concerto No. 3.
  • A collage of scenery, composers, and soloists
    From the Berkshires to Cape Cod
    WCRB In Concert features a Leonard Bernstein world premiere at Tanglewood and seaside chamber music from Cape Cod.