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The Aaron Copland Collection: Ca. 1900-1990
The inaugural online presentation of the aaron copland Collection at the Library of Congress celebrates the centennial of the birth of the American composer aaron copland (19001990).
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Extractions: Music Division, Library of Congress Search Browse by Musical Sketches Writings Correspondence Photographs ... Works List The inaugural online presentation of the Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress celebrates the centennial of the birth of the American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990). The multiformat Aaron Copland Collection from which the online collection derives spans the years 1910 to 1990 and includes approximately 400,000 items documenting the multifaceted life of an extraordinary person who was composer, performer, teacher, writer, conductor, commentator, and administrator. It comprises both manuscript and printed music, personal and business correspondence, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, awards, books, sound recordings, and motion pictures. The first release of the online collection contains approximately 1,000 items that yield a total of about 5,000 images. These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through the 1950s, and were selected from Copland's music sketches correspondence writings , and photographs The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The goal of the Library's National Digital Library Program is to offer broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.
Aaron Copland | American Composer
aaron copland American Composer. 19001990. Books By/About aaron copland. aaroncopland The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man - Author Howard Pollack
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Extractions: Aaron Copland Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900 in New York City. His musical works ranged from ballet and orchestral music to choral music and movie scores. For the better part of four decades Aaron Copland was considered the premier American composer. Copland learned to play piano from an older sister. By the time he was fifteen he had decided to become a composer. His first tentative steps included a correspondence course in writing harmony. In 1921 Copland traveled to Paris to attend the newly founded music school for Americans at Fontainebleau. He was the first American student of the brilliant teacher, Nadia Boulanger. After three years in Paris he returned to New York with his first major commission, writing an organ concerto for the American appearances of Madame Boulanger. His "Symphony for Organ and Orchestra" premiered in at Carnagie Hall in 1925. Copland's growth as a composer mirrored important trends of his time. After his return from Paris he worked with jazz rhythms in his "Piano Concerto" (1926). His "Piano Variations" (1930) was strongly influenced by Igor Stravinsky's Neoclassicism. In 1936 he changed his orientation toward a simpler style. He felt this made his music more meaningful to the large music-loving audience being created by radio and the movies. His most important works during this period were based on American folk lore including "Billy the Kid" (1938) and "Rodeo" (1942). Other works during this period were a series of movie scores including "Of Mice and Men" (1938) and "The Heiress" (1948). In his later years Copland's work reflected the serial techniques of the so-called 12-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg. Notable among these was "Connotations" (1962) commissioned for the opening of Lincoln Center.
Aaron Copland | American Composer
copland, aaron (1900 1990) The son of immigrant Jewish parents from Poland and Lithuania, aaron copland was born in Brooklyn in 1900 and lived to become the doyen of all American composers. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
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Extractions: Aaron Copland Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900 in New York City. His musical works ranged from ballet and orchestral music to choral music and movie scores. For the better part of four decades Aaron Copland was considered the premier American composer. Copland learned to play piano from an older sister. By the time he was fifteen he had decided to become a composer. His first tentative steps included a correspondence course in writing harmony. In 1921 Copland traveled to Paris to attend the newly founded music school for Americans at Fontainebleau. He was the first American student of the brilliant teacher, Nadia Boulanger. After three years in Paris he returned to New York with his first major commission, writing an organ concerto for the American appearances of Madame Boulanger. His "Symphony for Organ and Orchestra" premiered in at Carnagie Hall in 1925. Copland's growth as a composer mirrored important trends of his time. After his return from Paris he worked with jazz rhythms in his "Piano Concerto" (1926). His "Piano Variations" (1930) was strongly influenced by Igor Stravinsky's Neoclassicism. In 1936 he changed his orientation toward a simpler style. He felt this made his music more meaningful to the large music-loving audience being created by radio and the movies. His most important works during this period were based on American folk lore including "Billy the Kid" (1938) and "Rodeo" (1942). Other works during this period were a series of movie scores including "Of Mice and Men" (1938) and "The Heiress" (1948). In his later years Copland's work reflected the serial techniques of the so-called 12-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg. Notable among these was "Connotations" (1962) commissioned for the opening of Lincoln Center.
Historical Ballet Notes
Over 65 articles about ballets, their choreographers, composers, and history. Some topics include George Balanchine, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, aaron copland, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Butterfly, Dracula, Serenade, Swan Lake.
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Extractions: BalletNotes BalletNotes provide an in-depth background on ballets, their creators and history. A list of currrently available BalletNotes is listed by ballet title in the adjacent column, or visitors may browse by choreographers and composers from the list below. This material was fully researched and was current at the time the notes were written. However, BalletMet cannot guarantee the accuracy of any of this material. If you have any updates you would like to provide please contact dance@balletmet.org Choreographers and Composers Adolphe Adam
Copland 2000
The Second Hurricane, opera by aaron copland, libretto by Edwin Denby.
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Aaron Coplandhttp//voodoo.acomp.usf.edu/copland.html - February 10, 2003 - 6 KB6
copland House Life and Works Music from copland House Friends of copland House aaron copland Awards Calendar Links Marketplace Contact Us Welcome to the web site of copland House, aaron copland's longtime home near New York City, recently restored
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Copland, Aaron (1900 - 1990)
copland, aaron (1900 1990). The son of immigrant Jewish parentsfrom Poland and Lithuania, aaron copland was born in Brooklyn in
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Extractions: The son of immigrant Jewish parents from Poland and Lithuania, Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn in 1900 and lived to become the doyen of all American composers. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His wider popular reputation in the United States was founded on his thoroughly American ballets, Billy the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring, and, less overtly, on his film scores, while a great variety of other compositions won him an unassailable position in American concert-life. Ballet Music Copland's three ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring are quintessentially American, the first two dealing with familiar elements of the Wild West and the third turning to Shaker country in the farm-lands of Appalachia. All three works are well known also in the concert-hall. Orchestral Music Recommended Recording Rodeo / Billy the Kid / Appalachian Spring /
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Howard Pollack biography of the American composer.
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CNN - Music Returns To Aaron Copland's Home - December 24, 1998
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Extractions: Copland, who died in 1990, gave the name Rock Hill to the spacious 1940s era home north of New York City. His estate had planned to sell the home, but a group of musicians, history buffs and townspeople rallied together to find a different solution. RELATED VIDEO A report on the New York home of composer Aaron Copland
Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Copland | PB
copland, aaron Born Brooklyn, 14 Nov 1900 Died North Tarrytown, 2Dec 1990 Nationality American composer. He studied with Goldmark
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Extractions: He studied with Goldmark in New York and with Boulanger in Paris (1921-4), then returned to New York and took a leading part in composers organizations, taught at the New School for Social Research (1927-37) and composed. At first his Stravinskian inheritance from Boulanger was combined with aspects of jazz ("Music for the Theatre," 1925) or with a grand rhetoric ("Symphonic Ode," 1929), but then he established an advanced personal style in the Piano Variations (1930) and orchestral "Statements" (1935). Growing social concerns spurred him towards a popular style in the cowboy ballets "Billy the Kid" (1940) and "Rodeo" (1942), but even here his harmony and orchestral spacing are distinctive. Another ballet, "Appalachian Spring" (1944), brought a synthesis of the folksy and the musically developed, the score being a continuous movement towards a set of variations on a Shaker hymn. Selected Works Include: Operas Ballets Film scores Orchestral music 3 syms. (1925, 1933, 1946)
Aaron Copland - Biography
aaron copland Discography November 14, 2000 marks the 100th anniversaryof aaron copland's birth. Visit A copland Celebration!
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Extractions: Aaron Copland was the pioneer of American music he showed the world how to write classical music in an American way. He was born in 1900, when Americans were rarely recognised as composers in the music world. So Copland went to Europe for serious study, and, in the 1920s, wrote pieces with the flavour of jazz. European classical composers were also influenced by jazz at this time, as they were searching for new ways to bring their music into the 20th century. Copland's early works Grohg and Music for the Theatre show jazz influence. But he was soon to shed this in favour of strictly classical yet modernist works. With the great depression of the 1930s, when millions of Americans were unable to find work, the appeal of abstract music began to wain. So beginning in 1938, Copand produced a series of ballets that were to be widely heard and musically influential: Billy the Kid (a ballet about a legendary western outlaw, complete with cowboy songs, commissioned in 1938 by Kirstein for Eugene Loring), Rodeo (another Wild West ballet, about a cowgirl's search for a man) and Appalachian Spring (commissioned by the choreographer Martha Graham). When World War II began, the Cincinnati Symphony needed a patriotic American hero, and Copland by now one of the most famous composers in America wrote A Lincoln Portrait. For the same orchestra, he created his noble Fanfare for the Common Man.
Musica Classica - Classical Music - Klassische Musik - Karadar Bertoldi Ensemble
Classical Music Dictionary entry with life, illustrations, noted works, MIDI audio of Appalachian Spring, and text of the song Nature, the Gentlest Mother.
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Extractions: Copland (born in Brooklyn, N.Y., nov. 14, 1900) began serious musical study in his early teens. He was the first of many American musicians to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1921-24). On his return to the United States in 1925 and after the performance of his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, he became identified with brash modernism. While maintaining his penchant for the jazzy and experimental, Copland also developed a folksy American style that won him a wide audience. From 1925 to 1927, Copland held a Guggenheim grant, the first of many awards, commissions, and prizes he received. A prolific composer, Copland also taught and lectured extensively and wrote several books. He appeared frequently as a conductor of his own and other composers' music. In 1964 he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the U.S. government. Copland is perhaps most famous for his superb ballet scores, such as Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942), and Appalachian Spring (1944), which are all based on American folklore. MIDI FILE - Appalachian Spring He also composed two operas, The Second Hurricane (1937) and The Tender Land (1954), as well as choral works and songs.
Copland, Aaron At Musica.co.uk
aaron copland By Paul Musser paul@musica.co.uk The son of Russian Jewishimmigrants, aaron copland was an unlikely musical pioneer.
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Extractions: The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Aaron Copland was an unlikely musical pioneer. He grew up on the streets of Brooklyn, which he described as, "an environment that had little or no connection with serious music." His older sister, Laurine, gave him his first piano lessons and introduced him to ragtime and opera. By the age of twelve, Copland's interest in music was such that he began composing short works. After graduating high school, he decided to skip college and study theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark. It was here that he produced some of his first serious compositions, such as the piano piece The Cat and the Mouse (1920).
American Composers Orchestra - David Raksin Remembers His Colleagues
Insightful biography and reminiscence from the American Composers Orchestra series David Raksin Remembers His Colleagues.
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Extractions: aco homepage concert schedule David Raksin Remembers his Colleagues Max Steiner ... Franz Waxman Aaron Copland Hugo Friedhofer Bernard Herrmann Dmitri Tiomkin Aaron Copland The distinguished composer Aaron Copland was born on November 4,1900 in New York City. While still a child he began to study piano; subsequently he had lessons in harmony and counterpoint with composer Rubin Goldmark and began to compose. In 1920 his first published piece, The Cat and the Mouse, for piano, was printed, and that same year he entered the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, near Paris. There he studied composition and orchestration with the renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. He returned home in 1924 and soon became active as a pianist, lecturer and activist in musical societies. One of his compositions, Music for the Theater, attracted the attention of Serge Koussevitzky, who conducted its first performance with his Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1925; Copland later appeared as soloist in his Piano Concerto with the same forces. In New York City, Walter Damrosch conducted the Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, with Nadia Boulanger, for whom it had been written, as soloist. After the performance, Damrosch turned and said to the audience, "If a young man in his twenties can compose a piece like that, by the time he is thirty he should be ready to commit murder." (Many years later, when I was interviewing Aaron for one of my radio programs, I asked him whether he had fulfilled Damrosch's prophecy. His answer, complete with his characteristic grin, was, "I don't believe so.")
COPLAND, AARON
Translate this page Rondo98. ¡Sólo 995 ptas!. Pídelo, aaron copland (1900-1990) Naceen Brooklyn (Nueva York, EE.UU.) el 14 de noviembre de 1900. Sus
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Extractions: Nace en Brooklyn (Nueva York, EE.UU.) el 14 de noviembre de Sus padres eran de ascendencia polaca y lituana, llegando a EE.UU. como emigrantes a finales del siglo XIX. Sus primeros estudios musicales los realiza en el ambiente familiar, bajo la supervisión de Leopold Wolfsohn . Posteriormente estudia con V. Wittgenstein C. Adler y Robin Goldmark . En continua sus estudios en París con Nadia Boulanger (composición y armonía) y Ricardo Viñes (piano), a la vez que entra en contacto con la vida musical parisina a través de Sergei Prokofiev y Darius Milhaud . Cuatro años después, en 1924, regresa a Nueva York , donde en los años se une a Roger Sessions para patrocinar y promocionar conciertos de música moderna americana conocidos como los Copland-Sessions Concerts
IMDb Name Search
Filmography at IMDb with brief biography, Oscar awards and nominations, and composer, actor, lyricist, and musical director credits from film and television.
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Aaron Copland
However, aaron copland exerted such deeply shaping influences on twentieth centurymusic and culture that his name has become synonymous with American music.
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Extractions: by Christopher Michaels It may be somewhat ironic that the composer most closely identified with American music would be of Russian-Jewish immigrant heredity. However, Aaron Copland exerted such deeply shaping influences on twentieth century music and culture that his name has become synonymous with American music. Copland was a composer, conductor, lecturer, teacher, writer, and founder of the American Composers Alliance and the Tanglewood Festival and took a prominent role in the countrys musical environment for nearly seventy years. Copland was born in Brooklyn on November 14, 1900, the youngest of Harris and Sarah Coplands children. Both were born in Lithuania and they emigrated to the United States in the 1800s. They married in 1885 and a couple of years later Harris opened a store on Washington Avenue in Brooklyn. The Copland family lived three floors above the store. In a brief autobiographical sketch, written in 1939 at the invitation of Magazine of Art, Copland wrote, "I was born on a street in Brooklyn that can only be described as drab" During his early childhood, his musical inclinations appeared and he began to amuse himself by writing songs. At the age of twelve he began piano lessons from sister Laurine. After six months, Laurine released her brother as her student, admitting that he now knew more than she learned in eight years. Copland continued his studies on his own until he persuaded his parents to hire a professional teacher. Aaron chose Leopole Wolfsohn and under his tutelage began to try his hand at composing. Later, Copland wrote in his 1952 book
Composer Biography - Copland, Aaron
aaron copland. Upcoming Events MTT conducts RimskyKorsakov's Scheherazade09/10/2003-09/13/2003, (b. Brooklyn, 14 Nov 1900; d. North
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Copland, Aaron
aaron copland's music, except for a handful of universally popular pieces, is farbetter known in the USA than elsewhere despite the fact that the London
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Extractions: Apart from the influence of his advanced training in France, which can sometimes be heard at the very fringes of his music, Copland's compositions are all-American. He was a very hard worker, and an American patriot who gave his life to making and promoting music for the benefit of the community. He lived to see much of his life's work taking effect. Aaron Copland's music, except for a handful of universally popular pieces, is far better known in the USA than elsewhere - despite the fact that the London Symphony Orchestra produced a great deal of Copland's work both in the concert hall and on disc during the 1960s, often with the composer himself conducting. Copland also achieved much for American music behind the scenes: working on committees, as a teacher, lecturer and organiser of a variety of institutions, constantly busy during his long life. As a child in New York, Copland soon showed a strong musical talent. He was taught by the distinguished teacher, Rubin Goldmark (son of Karl Goldmark the composer). This flying start enabled Copland to begin composing early, with a published (comic) work in 1920. In the following year, he became a pupil in the first intake to the remarkable American School of Music in Fontainebleau where he remained for three years, studying composition and orchestration with Nadia Boulanger.
Aaron Copland - The Gift To Be Simple [Index]
Biography, key works, suggested reading, timeline, recommended recordings, quotes, additional resources, and historical and societal context. From Humanities Web.
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