At a moment when America's performing arts institutions are challenged not merely to continue to function, but to function in new ways, PCE will undertake a series of audio/video webcasts - "PostClassical: More than Music" -- exploring the role of music in society.
"Groundbreaking" – Douglas McLennan (founder/editor of ArtsJournal)
PCE’s latest More than Music film is a singular consideration of Aaron Copland’s odyssey as the most famous American composer of his generation – in particular, his immersion in the radical politics of the 1930s, and his “Red Scare” ordeal in the 1950s.
PCE’s latest More than Music film is a singular consideration of Aaron Copland’s odyssey as the most famous American composer of his generation – in particular, his immersion in the political left in the 1930s, and his “Red scare” ordeal of the 1950s.
"Wildly Ambitious"
Anne Midgette
"Invigorating"
Alex Ross
"One of the country's most innovative musical groups"
Phillip Kennicott
May 8, 2021 at 6:30 pm
May 9, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Stone Hill Theatrical Foundation
Cost: $20 per person (audience limited to 100 people)
In the wake of World War I, Igor Stravinsky was living in Switzerland, cut off from his family estate in Russia. He was receiving no royalties from his publisher in Berlin. Stage performances of his music by Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe had become very infrequent. His concert works were virtually dormant. With the Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, he conceived a small, portable entertainment, requiring neither a large theater nor a large orchestra, in fact suitable for outdoor performance. They imagined a small touring company of players – as an aspiration that proved impractical. But the work itself has vigorously survived.
NPR featured PCE's Bernard Herrmann CD in a recent broadcast: "The variety of music on this CD - colorful, romantic, witty, patriotic, nerve-wracking - shows how much Bernard Herrmann's concert and radio music equaled the astonishing range of his work for film."
PCE's latest Recording features the work of Bernard Herrmann. Hermann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Featuring Whitman, Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra , and Souvenirs de voyage.
