Martha Graham
Dance Company
Appalachian Spring

March 13, 2009, 8:00pm

Martha Graham transformed dance. She opened the way for dancers to express the fullest range of human emotions. Aaron Copeland created iconic music for our country, music that sang in the hearts of Americans. When he began composing “Appalachian Spring,” he called it simply “Ballet for Martha.” Graham used the music to tell the story of newlyweds in a Shaker region of Pennsylvania and her ballet is as simple and direct as its subject. Both the music and the dance have become American classics.

An audio sample

Sample from "Shaker Theme and Variations" from Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, Serge Koussevitsky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra

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