Ives/Copland and the American Spirit Music Festival

Saturday, October 17, 2009 -
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Join us for the second annual 20th-21st century composers festival, “Ives/Copland and the American Spirit Music Festival.” The festival will include four concerts and an introductory symposium, providing a rich panorama of the music of these two progenitors of American music. The entire School of Music will be engaged, with performances including the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, UA Wind Ensemble, Arizona Choir, Arizona Contemporary Ensemble, and faculty from the wind, string, voice and piano areas.

The featured guest artist will be pianist Jonathan Shames. Shames, a student of Leon Fleischer and Theodore Lettvin, won a finalist diploma in the 1982 Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition. Symposium speakers will include Vivian Perlis, director of Yale University’s Oral Music History Project and biographer of Copland, and Jan Swafford, who has written the definitive biography of Ives. We look forward to seeing you at all of the festival events!

Performaces are at 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 17 and 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Oct. 18.

Admission: Festival pass is $30 general, $15 students; Price per concert $10 general, $5 students
Audience: All