Program One: Aaron Copland: An American Master

8:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk Leon Botstein
8:30 p.m. Performance Michael Boriskin, piano; John Hancock, baritone; Nicholas Kitchen, violin; Anna Polonsky, piano; Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano; Diane Walsh, piano; Music from Copland House; Members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor; Bard Festival Chorus, James Bagwell, choral director

Aaron Copland (1900–90): Three Moods, for piano (1920–21); Two Pieces (1926); Into the Streets May First (1934); Sextet (1937); Fanfare for the Common Man (1942); Appalachian Spring (1944); In the Beginning (1947); from Old American Songs (1950–52); Night Thoughts (Homage to Ives), for piano (1972)