Program Four: Copland, Advocate of Contemporary American Music

1:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk Beth Levy
1:30 p.m. Performance Randolph Bowman, flute; Simone Dinnerstein, piano;
Jennifer Dudley, mezzo-soprano; John Hancock, baritone; Spencer Myer, piano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Hiroko Sakurazawa, piano; Janice Weber, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players, Teresa Cheung, conductor
Aaron Copland (1900–90), Piano Variations (1930)
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Hyperprism (1922–23)
Henry Cowell (1897–1965), Episode No. 2in B-flat Major (1920) and For a Child (1920-30)
Ruth Crawford (1901–53), Songs (1929)
Roger Sessions (1896–1985), Piano Sonata No. 1 (1927–30)
Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985), Paeans (1927)
Charles Ives (1874–1954), Songs (1900–21)
Colin McPhee (1900–64), Gamelan Transcriptions, for flute and piano (1935–36)
Carl Ruggles (1876–1971), Angels (1938)