Copland and the Cold War

This is a Post-Classical Ensemble Production with Benjamin Pasternack, pianist, GU Concert Choir, C. Paul Heins Music Director, and Actors from GU’s Theater & Performance Studies Program.

In 1953, Aaron Copland was subpoenaed by Senator Joseph McCarthy. How did the Red Scare impact on the artistic and national identity of America’s most famous concert composer? This program traces his compositional odyssey, from student years to modernism, 1930s populism and radicalism, to an apolitical "late style."