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The online Aaron Copland Collection comprises approximately one thousand items selected from Copland's music sketches, correspondence, writings, and photographs. The items are represented in about five thousand digitized images, the earliest an 1899 photograph and the latest a 1986 letter.
Copland House is a creative center for American music based at Aaron Copland's home, devoted to nurturing composers through a broad range of musical, educational, scholarly, and public programs and activities.
Jun 7, 2018 · Aaron Copland’s name is synonymous with American music. It was his pioneering achievement to break free from Europe and create concert music that is characteristically American. At the same time, he was able to stamp his music with a compositional personality so vivid as to transcend stylistic boundaries, making every work identifiable as his alone. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1900, Copland set out for Paris in 1920 to study with luminary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Among the many vital ...
Copland had the ability to “paint pictures” with his compositions. A talented and versatile composer, Copland wrote ballets, orchestral music, chamber music, vocal works, operas and film scores. The compositions of Aaron Copland were often used to raise the morale of American soldiers during World War II. Hundreds of young composers ...
Aaron Copland ( 14. marraskuuta 1900 Brooklyn, Yhdysvallat – 2. joulukuuta 1990 Sleepy Hollow, Yhdysvallat) oli yhdysvaltalainen säveltäjä. Copland kuuluu niihin amerikkalaissäveltäjiin, jotka ovat kyenneet antamaan Amerikan musiikille kenties osuvimmin oman identiteetin ja äänen.
Jul 19, 2018 · Aaron Copland 's "Fanfare for the Common Man" begins with dramatic percussion, heralding something big and exciting. Then comes a ladder of simple trumpet notes, solemn and heroic.
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 14 November 1900, the youngest of five children to Harris Morris Copland and Sarah Mittenthal Copland, both of whom were Jewish immigrants from Russia. Copland's parents arrived in Brooklyn in 1877, and upon reaching America, they adopted an Anglicized version of their original surname, Kaplan.
