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2025–26 Season

Copland’s American Inspiration

Apr 30 - May 2, 2026

Copland’s American Inspiration

Apr 30 - May 2, 2026

Featured Artists

Matthias Pintscher

Conductor

Leila Josefowicz

Violin

Copland captured the American spirit in his music, so evocative of windswept prairies, mountain hollows, and the optimism and resilience idealistically attributed to the inheritors of the new world. Like Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Rodeo, his Third Symphony—the source of his Fanfare for the Common Man—summons that irrepressible spirit in a deeply satisfying listening experience.  

Is there a composer more uniquely American than Aaron Copland? Conjuring up images of the fog-shrouded Blue Ridge and the sun-brittle prairie, celebrating the sweat of honest toil and the heroism of the everyday, he embodies the heart of the American ethos. No matter how many times you’ve heard the clarion call of his Fanfare for the Common Man, its soaring spirit summons pride. Get ready for goosebumps.

Conductor and composer Matthias Pintscher plays a dual role in this program, conducting his 2022 work Assonanza, written for the violinist Leila Josefowicz, who performs it here. Hear this “daring, probing, thinking, dancing, spectacularly virtuosic” violinist (Los Angeles Times) in Pintscher’s brilliantly dramatic concerto. 

Program

Williams

Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Pintscher

Assonanza, for violin and orchestra

Copland

Symphony No. 3

Additional Performance Information