#142: Reverberations

All music is created in a specific time and place. Aaron Copland’s emergence from a dance hall in 1930s Mexico were the first steps toward his place as an iconic composer of American music. Margaret Bonds’ symphonic variations on the spiritual, “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me,” center on events in which black Alabamians pushed back against the Jim Crow policies of the American South. And a new work by Liza Sobel Crane is premiered right here in the Twin Cities.