Copland and Henze.
The College's Summer Music Program which has earned international attention since its inception in 1963 will have Aaron Copland and Hans Werner Henze as composers-in-residence in 1967.
The distinguished American and German composers will conduct, lecture, and supervise performances of their works during their two-week periods of residency during the fifth annual Congregation of the Arts. Prof. Mario di Bonaventura, Director of Music for the Hopkins Center and the Summer Music Program, also announced that other composers who will participate in the 1967 program will be named in coming months.
Composer Henze will be coming directly from Europe where, according to Professor di Bonaventura, this young German's recent operas, The YoungLord and The Bassarids (1966 Salzburg Festival), secured his position among today's foremost opera composers. Henze's catalogue of works includes five symphonies, piano concerti and a violin concerto, a wind quintet and two string quartets, numerous works for ballet and chorus with orchestra, and six operas.
The four concerts to be presented during Henze's period of residency will feature several premieres.
Composer Copland, whose distinguished career in music spans nearly four decades, will not only conduct and lecture on his music, but will also perform as a pianist. The four concerts during Copland's stay will celebrate his unique contribution to contemporary American musical thought, Professor di Bonaventura said.
The Hopkins Center music director recently returned from Europe where he completed many of the arrangements for the summer program. While there he was a guest conductor for major orchestras in five different countries.
The Summer Music Program was described last year in The New York Times as "a major international festival ... at the tender age of four." Previous composers-in-residence have included Zoltan Kodaly, Walter Piston, Peter Mennin, Witold Lutoslawski, Boris Blacher, Vincent Persichetti, Henry Cowell, Carlos Chavez, Ross Lee Finney, Ernest Krenek, and Elliott Carter.
