Chelsea Music Festival – Copland & Twain, A Theatrical Concert

Copland & Twain
is a theatrical concert by director Bill Barclay, produced by Concert Theatre Works and former Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe, that weaves Aaron Copland’s stirring incidental music — including
Music for Movies
and
Music for Theatre
— together with the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain’s
Diaries of Adam and Eve
and other writings.
Music for the Movies
samples Copland’s film scores from
The City, Our Town,
and his Academy Award-winning score for
Of Mice and Men
; as well as his 1925
Music for the Theatre
, infused with jazzy vignettes of the Roaring 20s.

Five actors perform in costume before the Festival Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Ken-David Masur in this NY Premiere with costumes, lighting, and projections bringing this uniquely American collision of voices to life. The production poses a timely question at the heart of the American experiment: will the nation grow from its wounds toward a deeper love of neighbor, or let its scars tear it apart?

Bill Barclay
, writer and director

Ken-David Masur
, conductor

Concert Theatre Works
, producer

Arthur Oliver
, costume designer

Caleb Mayo
, actor

Chloe McFarlane
, actress

Maurice Emanuel Parent
, actor

Robert Walsh,
actor

Carson Elrod
, actor

Program

Aaron COPLAND Music for the Movies (NY Premiere, chamber orchestration)

Aaron COPLAND Music for the Theater (NY Premiere, chamber orchestration)

Mark TWAIN Diaries of Adam and Eve

Drinks Reception