Host Scott Yoo and pianist John Novacek discuss Copland’s career as a film composer. Copland was a firm believer in “less is more” in terms of scoring, an idea that can be heard in scores today. To ...
On December 2, 1990, composer Aaron Copland died at the age of 90. Born in Brooklyn to Polish and Lithuanian immigrant parents, Copland left for France to study piano at age 21, and returned to ...
Pretty much everyone agrees that Aaron Copland was America’s greatest composer. Yet how many major American orchestras pay meaningful attention to his music beyond an occasional performance of his ...
Aaron Copland grew up in Brooklyn far from the mainstream elegance of Carnegie Hall. The son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he went to public school, took piano lessons, and was mitzvahed at the Kane Street ...
The representatives for the use of music in Aaron Copland’s estate say that they are reviewing Donald Trump‘s team’s use of the late composer’s Hoe-Down in a video that touted his administration’s ...
When Martha Graham’s ballet “Appalachian Spring” had its premiere on Oct. 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C., Aaron Copland was the voice of America. He had the gift to be simple. He wrote music that ...
Erik Johns, 74, the librettist for composer Aaron Copland’s only full-length opera, “The Tender Land,” died Dec. 11 in a fire at his home in Fishkill, N.Y. Johns was a dancer, painter and poet who met ...
In 2000, former NPR producer, musicologist and Civil War historian Andy Trudeau was charged with writing a musicial biography for NPR's Aaron Copland Centennial coverage on the Web. Introduction: The ...
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