Stirring Music And Atmosphere
(By Traci Goudie)
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"My absolute favorite concert ever was at Wolf Trap," says Mary Chapin Carpenter, the singer-songwriter who has probably been many people's favorite concert in the course of her own headlining appearances at Wolf Trap in the past 17 summers.
"I had a lawn seat and a blanket when Aaron Copland was conducting the National Symphony Orchestra for 'Appalachian Spring' in [1981], and it was extraordinary," says Carpenter, who had just graduated from Brown University that spring, "so I was a newly minted graduate playing bars and clubs in D.C. [that] summer who took the night off to go to Wolf Trap. It was just one of those extraordinary, beautiful nights out there, with one of the greatest pieces of music ever and, of course, the composer."
As for the possibility that she would regularly grace the Wolf Trap stage, Carpenter says, "not in a million years would I ever have thought that." Sadly, she won't be doing so this year: A pulmonary embolism forced Carpenter to cancel all her work for the rest of the year just as she was set to tour in support of her critically acclaimed new album, "The Calling."
