Pianist Michael Arnowitt offers a program surveying the music of Aaron Copland on Wednesday, July 24th at 7 O'Clock in the Municipal Building's Community Steele Room. Copland created what is considered today to be a distinctively American sound in classical music. Arnowitt will perform and discuss music from Copland's Four Piano Blues, Piano Variations, El Salon Mexico, and Copland's famous Appalachian Spring. Also included on the program is Conversation at the Soda Fountain, from the music Copland wrote for the film version of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." Michael Arnowitt is an internationally-known classical and jazz pianist with over thirty years of concert experience in Europe as well as the U.S. and Canada. He is well known in our area having lived in Montpelier for many years. He now resides in Toronto.

Arnowitt's lectures are modeled on the format popularized by Leonard Bernstein, in which live music illustrates his insightful spoken commentary. His engaging anecdotes illuminate not just the music he performs but the social contexts of the composers he explores.

This is a Vermont Humanities Council sponsored event, hosted by the Waterbury Library, free, open to the public and accessible for those with disabilities.

Dec 24, 2024, 4 to 10 PM

Dec 24, 2024, 7 to 8 PM

Dec 27, 2024, 1 to 3 PM