"Shaker Melody" ("Simple Gifts") from Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland) – Upcoming Concerts

Aaron Copland — "Shaker Melody" ("Simple Gifts") from Appalachian Spring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Serenade No. 12 for Winds in C minor, K. 388/384a "Nachtmusik"
Edward Elgar — Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20
Richard Wagner — Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
Johannes Brahms — Hungarian Dance No. 5

Program includes works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Jonathan Leshnoff, Aaron Copland, George Walker, Nkeiru Okoye, John Williams, Claude Debussy, and Gioachino Rossini.

Aaron Copland — "Shaker Melody" ("Simple Gifts") from Appalachian Spring
Ruth Crawford Seeger — Rissolty Rossolty
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Rondo in B-flat for Violin and Orchestra, K. 269/261a (Qing Li, violin)
Charles Ives — Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1) ("II. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut")
Claude Debussy — "III. Clair de Lune" from Suite bergamasque, L. 75 (arr. André Caplet)
Georges Bizet — Symphony No. 1 in C major "Symphony in C"

Shaker arrangements by British and American composers: Kevin Siegfried, Elizabeth Poston, John Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Rutter, and others.

Program includes "O Magnum Mysterium," "Scenes From the Louvre," "Simple Gifts," and variations on "Yankee Doodle" and "America the Beautiful."

Works by Blitsztein, Copland, Bolcom, Albéniz, and Gershwin.

Copland – Zion's Walls
Scholz – What Wondrous Love
Tallis – If ye love me, keep my commandments
Handel – Surely He hath born our griefs
Paulus – Pilgrim's Hymn
Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus
... and more

Copland – Zion's Walls
Scholz – What Wondrous Love
Tallis – If ye love me, keep my commandments
Handel – Surely He hath born our griefs
Paulus – Pilgrim's Hymn
Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus
... and more