'Simple Gifts' part of dramatic choral presentation

]A committed artist will from time to time test the limits of a particular area of expertise, hopping from one discipline to another. The best of them are often quite successful.

Composer Aaron Copland, who gave the world his gifts of the opera, “The Tender Land,” the ballet, “Appalachian Spring” and “Fanfare for the Common Man” was one such artist, in spite of himself.