The NYPO in January presents Copland's "The Tender Land," Sun 1/19 @ 3pm

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Published December 30, 2024 at 11:32 AM EST

Often referred to as the composer whose music best illuminates the American spirit and sound, Aaron Copland's opera The Tender Land takes place on the prairie during the Depression. Despite the fact that life was hard, Copland's beautiful work brings a wonderful optimism.

Sepia toned image of wheat fields, fence and grain silos "The Tender Land"

1/5 Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring, Selections from Old American Songs, Books 1 & II Cole Porter: Selected Songs: Night and Day, Who Said Gay Paree?, Where Is the Life that Late I Led?, In the Still of the Night, Begin the Beguine Gershwin: An American in Paris (Thomas Hampson, bar; Alan Gilbert, cond)

1/12 Ives: The Unanswered Question Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 Webern: Symphony Schumann: Symphony No. 2 (Emmanuel Ax, p; Alan Gilbert, cond)

1/19 Russo: Symphony No. 2, Titans Ellington/Marsalis: A Tone Parallel to Harlem Copland: The Tender Land (Joy Clements, s; Claramae Turner, ms; Richard Cassilly, t; Richard Fredricks, bar; Norman Treigle, bs; Choral Art Society, William Jonson, dir; Maynard Ferguson, tr; Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; Wynton Marsalis, art dir; André Kostelantetz; Leonard Bernstein; Kurt Masur and Aaron Copland, cond)

1/26 Sibelius: Finlandia, Pohola’s Daughter, Violin Concerto, II: Mélisande from Pelleas & Mélisande, Symphony No. 2 (Zino Francescatti, v; Zubin Mehta, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Thomas Beechum and Lorin Maazel, cond)