COPLAND HOUSE ENSEMBLE AND WEST POINT BAND JOIN TO CELEBRATE BETTER ANGELS

Two Concerts Welcome an Appalachian Spring to Metro New York

The internationally-acclaimed Copland House Ensemble and members of the famed West Point Band join together for Better Angels, a wide-ranging free concert inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s soaring imagery concluding his first inaugural address, evoking “the mystic chords of memory, which … will yet swell the chorus of the Union … by the better angels of our nature.” Aaron Copland’s iconic ballet suite Appalachian Spring headlines the program, which also features music celebrating community, resilience, resolve, and devotion by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacob Druckman, rising-stars Viet Cuong and Jessica Meyer, and Queen of Gospel, Jazz, and Blues, Nina Simone. The concert will be performed twice, on Sunday afternoon, May 4 at 3:00pm at Copland House’s vast new satellite location at Bluestone Farm in Brewster, NY, and on Tuesday evening, May 6 at 6:30pm at Copland House’s FREE FOR ALL! series at Elebash Hall at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Tickets are free, but reservations are required.