The Music of Aaron Copland and Mario Davidovsky

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The 2012 Four Score Festival presents the music of Charles Ives, Aaron Copland and how their inspiration threaded its way through the work of two of their students, Gunther Schuller and Mario Davidovsky.  

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Program

Aaron Copland

Quiet City
Andrew Nogal, English horn
Dorival Puccini, trumpet
Academy String Ensemble: James Setapen, conductor

From 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
Nature, the gentlest mother
There came a wind like a bugle
Why do they shut me out of Heaven?
Dear March, come in
I felt a funeral in my brain
Going to Heaven!
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano and Abraham Stokman, piano

Danzon Cubano
Abraham Stokman and Fiona Queen, piano

Nonet
James Setapen, conductor
Sharon Chang, Sang Mee Lee, Yuka Katoda, violin
Clark Carruth, Dominic Johnson, and Sarah Montzka, violas
Ali Herbst, Paula Kosower, and Jared Scott, cellos

Intermission

Mario Davidovsky

Synchronisms No. 6
Mark George, piano

Cappricio
Abraham Stokman and Fiona Queen, piano

Romancero
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
Melissa Snoza, flute
Jennifer Woodruff, clarinet
Sang Mee Lee, violin
Jared Scott, cello