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Nov 8, 2004 · When Aaron Copland was born in 1900, America's classical-music masters were composers that, today, are fairly obscure -- Edward MacDowell, Ethelbert Nevin, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach ...
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Aaron Copland, (born Nov. 14, 1900, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S. — died Dec. 2, 1990, North Tarrytown [now Sleepy Hollow], N.Y.), was an American composer who achieved a distinctive musical characterization of American themes in an expressive modern style. Copland, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, was born in New York City and attended public ...
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) là nhà soạn nhạc, nhà sư phạm người Mỹ. Ông sống trong thời kỳ âm nhạc có nhiều phong cách khác nhau như cấu trúc, biểu hiện, tân cổ điển,... Ông là một trong những nhà soạn nhạc có ảnh hưởng tới các nhà soạn nhạc Mỹ sau này, rõ nhất là ở phong cách âm nhạc của Leonard Bernstein. Tác phẩm nổi tiếng của ông là tổ khúc Rodeo.
News. Program Note. Based on a Jewish folk song from Ansky's play The Dybbuk, Vitebskis one of Copland's few works making use of a Jewish theme. (Vitebsk, Ansky's home town in Russia, was where the playwright first heard the tune.) Copland wrote, "Jewish influences were present in my music, even when I did not refer to them overtly.
The city of Grand Rapids, Michigan commissioned Copland to write a fanfare marking the dedication of a large red Alexander Calder stabile entitled La Grande Vitesse. The sculpture was the first work of art in American history to be jointly commissioned and financed by federal and private funds. Copland revised the work in 1975, prompted by the ...
