Graham: In HER Voice

Martha Graham famously remarked: “To be great, art... must belong to the country in which it flourishes, not be a pale copy of some art form perfected by another culture and another people.” With her iconic “Appalachian Spring,” a slice of pioneer life set to a luminous score by Aaron Copland that exudes the optimism of a young frontier couple on their wedding day, the legendary Graham passionately drew on the “American experience.”