IN THE BEGINNING
TWELVE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
Aaron Copland

ADAGIO FOR STRINGS  Samuel Barber
(arr. for chorus by Barber - 1967)

Matthew Larkin  CONDUCTOR

Michèle Bogdanowicz  SOPRANO
Teresa van den Boogaard  ORGAN
Lucile Brais Hildesheim  HARP
Matthew Larkin  PIANO
Percussion ensemble

In the middle decades of the 20th century, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein tapped the pulse of popular American culture and gave birth to a new kind of music. Pumped up with the frenetic energy of urban jazz yet also suffused with the expansive tranquility of the American landscape, the music was honest and idiomatic. Along with their large legacy of art songs and serious classical and operatic works, their ballet, broadway and film scores have become the signature tunes of a nation. This evening's music brings you the raw intensity and the elegiac quietude that are the hallmarks of their American voices.