Celebrity Series of Boston Presents: What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow

Inventing America, Part 2 Copland’s Appalachian Spring: An American Voice for Classical Music. In the second installment of his two-part Inventing America series, Rob Kapilow explores Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, with the expert assistance of Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry. Originally commissioned as a ballet for Martha Graham, the suite has become auditory shorthand for a kind of populist Americana, but Kapilow finds ...