When Aaron Copland thought of the Far West, he probably didn’t have Wisconsin in mind, but Milwaukee was the perfect location to “road test” the new edition of Rodeo.

When Aaron Copland thought of the Far West, he probably didn’t have Wisconsin in mind, but Milwaukee was the perfect location to “road test” the new edition of Rodeo.
We’ve been “road testing” a new edition of the full ballet of Copland’s Billy the Kid with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra to make the music the very best it can be before it’s published.
A brief diary of a trip to New Orleans to hear the first notes of a new edition of Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony.
Stephen Webber is a professor at the Berklee College of Music in the Music Production and Recording department, and he got in touch to tell me about his Stylus Symphony, a work for orchestra and turntables that he composed and performed in its premiere at the Berklee Performance Center in November 2008. Naturally, the work was […]