We celebrate “Revolutions”, music that revolutionized cultures and the arts. There is Beethoven’s Eroica written in the passions of post-Revolution Europe, and then Mozart and his Figaro, the opera that tweaked and challenged the aristocracy. We will shake the strings as they oscillate between notes in John Adams ‘ Shaker Loops, along with the music which revolutionized American Ballet – Copland’s Appalachian Spring. 

 Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Mvt. 1 (1803) 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Overture & 2 Arias from Marriage of Figaro (1786) 

Featuring Opera Singer Xander McRae, Baritone 

“Se vuol ballare”

“Non più andrai”

John Adams, Shaker Loops 4. Final Shaking (1982)

Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring (1943)