1. SPECTRUM Biographies - Aaron Copland Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Researcher Rachel Sahlman Artist Dick Strandberg. Aaron Copland died on December 2, 1990. http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Copland.html

Aaron Copland "Fanfare for the Common Man" Researcher: Rachel Sahlman Artist: Dick Strandberg Aaron Copland, one of America's greatest composers, was the fifth child born into a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, New York. He was born on November 14, 1900. However, it was not until he reached his teens that Copland began to show an interest in music. He learned to play the piano from his older sister Laurine, and in less than one year, Copland had learned everything she could teach him. Following much pestering of his father, Copland was allowed to take formal lessons. After attending his first concert at age 15, Copland decided to become a composer. Upon graduating high school, Copland studied harmony and counterpoint through a correspondence course, a very difficult way to learn music. He was then referred to Rubin Goldmark, who was a specialist in harmony. Copland dreamt of studying music in France, and for the next several years, he saved his money and continued to practice. In 1920, Copland was granted a scholarship, and in the summer of 1921, he traveled to the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau. In France, Copland studied with Nadia Boulanger and became her first American student in composition. Copland studied in France for three years, then returned to New York with a commission from his teacher. While working as a pianist in a Pennsylvania resort, Copland composed the Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, for Boulanger's American appearances. The work premiered at Carnegie Hall with the New York Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Walter Damrosch.

2. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Copland Aaron Copland. ( 1900 1990) As much as anyone, Aaron Copland established American concert music through his compositions, polemics, promotions, and just plain hard work. http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/copland.html

Aaron Copland As much as anyone, Aaron Copland established American concert music through his compositions, polemics, promotions, and just plain hard work. He belongs to a generation of composers - along with Virgil Thomson Roy Harris , and Walter Piston - which not only raised our native music to a thoroughly professional level, but put it on an equal footing with contemporary developments in European modernism. As Stravinsky once remarked, "Why call Copland a great American composer? He's a great composer." Copland's music, after his juvenalia, falls into three large periods. In the first two, he concerns himself with, among other things, trying to find a serious style which sounds American, rather than European. His main teacher, Nadia Boulanger, encouraged him in this, usually pointing out (to her) odd rhythms in his work. Copland had not noticed them before, because they were part of him. As Leonard Bernstein noted, they were the rhythms of someone who had grown up with jazz and American pop, although not necessarily jazz rhythms. As a young man in his 20s, he composes a ballet Grohg (later reworked as the Dance Symphony ) to an Expressionist libretto by the theater critic Harold Clurman. The rhythms in the faster sections gave some very well-known European conductors fits. Again, they weren't precisely the jazz of the time, but they would have fit right into be-bop. In his first period during the 1920s, he tries out his own brand of symphonic jazz in such works as

3. Aaron Copland Aaron Copland. ( 19001990) Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Obras Music for the Theatre (1925) Concierto para piano (1927) Trío Vitebst (1929) Oda sinfónica (1930) Variaciones para piano (1930) Oda sinfónica (1932) Statements (1935) Director WYLER, William. Música Aaron Copland. Biografía http://www.epdlp.com/copland.html

4. Copland,Aaron Coquard Arthur copland aaron (19001990) Harry H. Dunham. Copland writes "It is certainly one of the least complex pieces that I've ever written You might http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/Composers/Names/002320.html

Find: The Database Home Page < Cope,David H. To the Index Coquard,Arthur >> Copland,Aaron (1900-1990) Sex Male Comments As It Fell Upon a Day Written Duration Comments Words from Richard Barnefield Publisher New Music Edition Inst. Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Soprano Grade Comments Concerto Written Duration Comments Written for Benny Goodman. One of the classics of clarinet literature. Publisher Inst. Clarinet in Bb, Piano Grade Comments Piano reduction by the composer Publisher Unknown Inst. Clarinet in Bb, Orchestra Grade Comments Sextet Written Duration Comments Publisher Inst. Clarinet in Bb, Piano, Violin (2), Viola, Cello Grade Comments Sonata Written Duration Comments Transcribed by the composer from his Sonata for Violin and Piano. Dedicated to the memory of Lt. Harry H. Dunham. Copland writes: "It is certainly one of the least complex pieces that I've ever written ... You might say that the Violin Sonata of 1943 is well on the way to Appalachian Spring, composed the next year." The sonata has been transposed down a major third. Publisher Inst.

5. Aaron Copland - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Aaron Copland. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 December 2, 1990) was born in Brooklyn, New York. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland

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7. Aaron Copland Aaron Copland, Aaron Copland was born in New York City on 14th November, 1900. He studied music under Rubin Goldmark in New York and Nadia Boulanger in France. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcopland.htm

Aaron Copland To receive your free copy every week enter your email address below. FREE Education Newsletters - choose below... Education on the Internet Teaching History Online Email: Let keep Ahead .com bring you the world by email Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email Aaron Copland was born in New York City on 14th November, 1900. He studied music under Rubin Goldmark in New York and Nadia Boulanger in France . He returned to the United States in 1924 where his quickly developed a reputation as an outstanding composer. This included Music for the Theater Piano Concerto Piano Variations Billy the Kid Rodeo (1942) and Appalachian Spring Copland also wrote the music for several films including The City Of Mice and Men Our Town The Heiress (1949) and The Red Pony After the Second World War the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began to investigate people with left-wing views in the entertainment industry. In

8. Featured Subject: Aaron Copland Kentucky Educational Television's distance learning program presents music and book reviews and articles by and about him from fromthe archives of The New York Times. http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/music/copland.htm

Featured Subject: Aaron Copland With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times In This Feature Reviews of Aaron Copland's Music Reviews of Aaron Copland's Books Articles About Aaron Copland Articles by Aaron Copland Audio Excerpts From the Music of Aaron Copland Related Links John Rockwell Reviews Howard Pollack's 'Aaron Copland' (March 14, 1999) First Chapter: 'Aaron Copland' The Associated Press Aaron Copland in 1956. REVIEWS OF AARON COPLAND'S MUSIC: Copland Gives First of 'One-Man' Concerts (October 12, 1935) An all-Copland program included an early performance of "El Salon Mexico." Audio Excerpt from 'El Salon Mexico' 'Second Hurricane' in World Premiere (April 22, 1937) "Copland's musical efforts were largely confined to choral numbers and these, with their lack of melodic inspiration, their constant repetition of empty, dry phrases, soon grew wearisome, especially as they wanted mood with few exceptions and merely halted the action." Copland 'Short Symphony' Has Premiere Here (January 10, 1944) "In more recent years Mr. Copland has chosen to write in a much simpler and more direct manner . . . The symphony, being both abstract and in the less effective early style, cannot be reckoned among its composer's important contributions to the literature."

9. American Masters . Aaron Copland | PBS Music. aaron copland was one of the most respected American classical composers of the twentieth century. By incorporating popular http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/copland_a.html

A aron Copland was one of the most respected American classical composers of the twentieth century. By incorporating popular forms of American music such as jazz and folk into his compositions, he created pieces both exceptional and innovative. As a spokesman for the advancement of indigenous American music, Copland made great strides in liberating it from European influence. Today, ten years after his death, Copland's life and work continue to inspire many of America's young composers. Martha Graham 's "Appalachian Spring" (1944), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Both ballets presented views of American country life that corresponded to the folk traditions Copland was interested in. Probably the most important and successful composition from this time was his patriotic "A Lincoln Portrait" (1942). The piece for voice and orchestra presents quotes from Lincoln's writings narrated over Copland's musical composition. Leonard Bernstein Harold Clurman Martha Graham Paris ... Library of Congress Collection

10. 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 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html

The Library of Congress 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.

11. Copland, Aaron (1900 - 1990) 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. http://www.hnh.com/composer/copland.htm

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. 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 / Fanfare for the Common Man Naxos 8.550282

12. Copland, Aaron Short biography from The Timid Soul's Guide to Classical Music. http://www.azstarnet.com/public/packages/reelbook/153-4002.htm

Aaron Copland: Icon of American culture 1900-1990 American composers wrote with a German accent in the 19th century, and adopted a more fashionable French accent early in the 20th century. Only with the 1930s work of Aaron Copland did American music find its own loping voice. Copland's music just before, during and after World War II defined the American style. Great Americana film scores from Elmer Bernstein's ``To Kill a Mockingbird'' and ``The Magnificent Seven'' to Randy Newman's ``The Natural'' are homages to the Copland sound and attitude. Copland himself wrote eight film scores, including ``Of Mice and Men,'' ``The Red Pony'' and ``The Heiress.'' But he really launched the Americana movement not on the silver screen but in the concert hall and on the ballet stage. His greatest strength as a composer was his simplicity of expression, his ability to make a musical point memorably but without fuss. That's why three of his six ballet scores - ``Rodeo,'' ``Billy the Kid'' and ``Appalachian Spring'' - are loved even by people who hate modern music. Copland's first works, in the 1920s and '30s, were self-consciously avant-garde for their time, with brashly dissonant harmonies. Copland was committed to tonality, but primitivism had been in vogue since Stravinsky's ``The Rite of Spring'' premiered just before World War I.

13. Welcome To Copland House: Home elcome to the web site of copland House, a unique creative center for American music based at aaron copland s restored, longtime home. aaron copland Awards. http://www.coplandhouse.org/

var jsFullPath = 'http://www.coplandhouse.org/'; var jsSubDirectory = 'coplandhouse'; var jsWebsiteURL = 'http://www.coplandhouse.org'; Home About Copland House Aaron Copland Awards Aaron Copland ... Calendar Upcoming Events Thursday, July 8, 2004 7:30 PM Music from Copland House “The Sounds of Westchester” Caramoor International Music Festival Katonah, NY Friday, July 9, 2004 8:00 PM Music from Copland House House Concert Bedford, NY Friday, July 16, 2004 8:00 PM Music from Copland House House Concert Bethesda, MD Saturday, July 17, 2004 5:00 PM Music From Copland House “Wednesdays in Paris” Garth Newel Music Center Warm Springs, VA Sunday, July 18, 2004 3:00 PM Music from Copland House “Musical Excursions” Garth Newel Music Center Warm Springs, VA Welcome to Copland House elcome to the web site of Copland House, a unique creative center for American music based at Aaron Copland's restored, longtime home. An Official Project of the White House "Save America's Treasures" program and an entry in the National Register of Historic Places, Copland House is the only composer's home in the United States devoted to nurturing American composers and their work through a broad range of musical, educational, scholarly, and public programs and activities. This site was designed as a resource for information about Copland House activities, Copland's life and work, and American music. Use the links at the top or bottom of any page to navigate to the areas that interest you. To get started, consider some of these:

14. WQXR: Classical Music Scene Biography with education and influences, interaction with peers, teaching, evolution of style, noted works, and summary list of compositions from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio. http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=2129

15. The Aaron Copland School Of Music Queens College City University of New York. Located in Flushing. http://www.qc.edu/MUSIC/

16. Essentials Of Music - Composers COMPOSERS. aaron copland. Born November 14, 1900. Brooklyn, New York. Died December 2, 1990. Tarrytown, New York. In his own words " on his contemporaries and students has been tremendous . http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/copland.html

COMPOSERS AARON COPLAND Born: November 14, 1900. Brooklyn, New York Died: December 2, 1990. Tarrytown, New York In his own words... "To explain the creative musician's basic objective in elementary terms, I would say that a composer writes music to express and communicate and put down in permanent form certain thoughts, emotions and states of being. These thoughts and emotions are gradually formed by the contact of the composer's personality with the world in which he lives. He expresses these thoughts (musical ones...) in the musical language of his own time. The resultant work of art should speak to men and women of the artist's own time with a directness and immediacy of communicative power that no previous art expression can give." American composer, conductor and author. Copland helped define a twentieth century American sound. His influence on his contemporaries and students has been tremendous. Aaron Copland seems at first to be an odd person to create a musical style that combined the myths of the American West and the styles of Latin American music into a populist music that spoke to a large segment of American society. Copland was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, grew up in New York, and found his musical voice in the international, avant-garde atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s. In New York he was part of a musical elite, championing the cause of modern music. At the same time, he had ties to the political and social left with its reformist agenda. Yet it could be argued that all of these elements were important ingredients, not just in the fabric of America in the 20s and 30s, but in the creation of a distinctly American aesthetic.

17. The Aaron Copland Collection: Ca. 1900-1990 inaugural online presentation of the aaron copland Collection at the Library of the American composer aaron copland (19001990). The multiformat aaron copland Collection from http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html

The Library of Congress 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.

18. Aaron Copland Collection: Related Resources copland, aaron. The Composer and His Critic. Modern Music 9, no. 4 (MayJune 1932) 143-47. copland, aaron, and Vivian Perlis. copland 1900 through 1942. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/acrelated.html

Aaron Copland Collection Related Resources: Selected Bibliography and Related Web Sites By Copland About Copland About Other People, Places, and Events Related Web Sites at the Library of Congress ... Other Related Web Sites By Copland Copland, Aaron. "The Composer and His Critic." Modern Music 9, no. 4 (May-June 1932): 143-47. Copland on Music . New York: Doubleday, 1960. Music and Imagination . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1952. The New Music, 1900-1960 . Revised and enlarged edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1968. Our New Music: Leading Composers in Europe and America . New York and London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1941. What to Listen for in Music . New York and London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939. Copland, Aaron, and Vivian Perlis. Copland: 1900 through 1942 Copland: Since 1943 About Copland Berger, Arthur. Aaron Copland . New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. Reprint, with new introduction by Leonard Burkat, New York: Da Capo Press, 1990. . "Aaron Copland, 1900-1990."

19. AARON COPLAND Information about his operatic works, especially the both the two and the three act versions of The Tender Land. http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/copland/

Aaron Copland Born: 14 Nov. 1900, Brooklyn, NY Died: 2 Dec. 1990, Peekeskill, NY (U.S. Opera Home Page) Operas The Second Hurricane, for high school students with chorus of parents, libretto by Edwin Denby (1938) The Tender Land, opera in 2 acts; (1 April 1954, NY City Opera) The Tender Land [rev. in 3 acts] (1955) About Aaron Copland One of the most influential American composers of the twentieth century, Copland nevertheless did not find success with either of his operas. The Tender Land is still occasionally heard, but not as often as the work's quality warrants. Discography (Search Amazon.com for music by Aaron Copland The Tender Land. Bohn/Comeaux/Dressen/Fristad, Plymouth Music Series/Brunelle, 1990. Compact disc: Virgin Classics VCD-7-91113-2 Compact disc: Musical Heritage Society MHS 522834L. The Tender Land, complete chamber version (premiere rec. of this version). Hanson/Vargas/Zeller/MacNeil, Third Angle New Music Ensemble/Sidlin, 1999. Compact disc: Koch 7480. The Tender Land (complete?), on

20. Aaron Copland | American Composer aaron copland American Composer. 19001990. Books By/About aaron copland. aaron copland The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man - Author Howard Pollack http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/copland.html

Resources Menu Categorical Index Library Gallery Aaron Copland American Composer Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. 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.

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