Appalachian Spring: Creating an American Sound

Chameleon Arts Ensemble opens its 20th anniversary season with Aaron Copland’s supreme masterpiece – Appalachian Spring – in a program on the evolution of the American Sound. Also on the concert are a selection of songs by the quintessential American maverick Charles Ives; John Harbison’s North and South for soprano and chamber ensemble; Arthur Berger’s Woodwind Quartet, dedicated to Copland; and a late-Romantic tour de force – the 1908 Piano Quintet in f-sharp minor, by the pioneering Amy Beach.