COPLAND HOUSE AND ITS MUSICAL JOURNEYS ACROSS AMERICA - PAST AS PROLOGUE

Time-traveling across the generations, growing fresh creative fruit from artistic seeds of the distant past. A riff on J.S. Bach that “morphs fluidly through the centuries and genres.” A memorial tribute tapping into the intricacies of Baroque counterpoint and the passions of Italian opera to symbolize a life intertwined with art, love, and humanity. A contemporary ballet score built on Medieval song and dance, flavored with Wagnerian gestures and Ragtime energy. The virtuosic repurposing of an English Renaissance hymn as the underpinning of a kinetic, stylishly contemporary work. These dazzling works bridge the centuries, embrace and renew artistic ancestry, and affirm the continuing relevance of a rich creative legacy. How can the same 12 notes of the chromatic scale be made to sound so different across six centuries?

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