Aaron Copland in Georgetown

Saturday, May 29 and
Thursday June 3 -
Sunday June 6, 2009

Art in the Square
will take place
on October 16 & 17, 2010

Georgetown Festival of the Arts
P.O. Box 846
Georgetown, TX 78627

Tel 512.639.0443

E-mail tickets@gtownfestival.org

Howard Pollack is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of five books, including most recently Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man (1999) and George Gershwin: His Life and Work (2006). The recipient of two Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, the Irving Lowens Award, and many other grants and other honors, Pollack has lectured and performed widely at home and abroad. He currently is writing a critical biography of Marc Blitzstein.

William McGinney earned his PhD degree from the University of North Texas in 2009 after completing his master's degree in 2003. He has published on Aaron Copland's music for The Red Pony. His dissertation focuses on science fiction films of the l960s and 1970s that appropriate the sounds and worldviews of twentieth-century avant-garde musical works as part of the films' bleak visions of the future.

Wendy Barker is the author of Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor. Her most recent book is a novel in prose poems, Nothing Between Us: the Berkeley Years, that was runner-up for the Del Sol Prize and was published by Del Sol Press in 2009. Barker has published four earlier book collections of poems and three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, and Boulevard. Her work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Bulgarian, and Hindi. Recipient of NEA and Rockefeller fellowships, she is Poet-in-Residence and a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Hank Hammett, the Director of Opera at Southern Methodist University, is an acclaimed director and acting coach for singers. He has worked at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Theâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels), De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Opera Company of Philadelphia and The Dallas Opera, among others.