Born to Russian Jewish immigrants, Aaron Copland (1900-1990) may be America's most well-known and loved composer. Influenced early by jazz and French Modern composers, he moved to make his own compositional mark. Often using hymns, cowboy tunes, Mexican dances, Latin American rhythms, and folk tunes in his work, his music covered many styles and was written for many purposes. Copland wrote an opera, film scores, ballets, chamber music, vocal music, and several orchestral pieces, including three symphonies.
Aaron Copland's long-time home near New York City now administered as a composers' retreat and creative center for American music. Includes biography, works, calendar, contact information. www.coplandhouse.org
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. www.dl.ket.org/humanities/music/copland.htm
Researched by Rachel Sahlman for the home and school magazine. Includes premium links to purchase books and recordings. www.incwell.com/Biographies/Copland.html
Library of Congress entry allows browsing by musical sketches, writings, correspondence, photographs, and title index. Includes the special presentations About Copland's Works, Timeline, An Intimate Sketch, and A 75th Birthday Tribute. memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html
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. www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=2129
Entry at the Lied and Art Songs Text Pages listing cycles and individual vocal works with links to public domain texts. www.recmusic.org/lieder/c/copland.html
Filmography at IMDb with brief biography, Oscar awards and nominations, and composer, actor, lyricist, and musical director credits from film and television. us.imdb.com/name/nm0178716
Wikipedia article with life, photograph, works list, bibliography, internal references to related people, topics, and selected works, and links. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland
Brief biography summarizing orchestral pieces and ballet music and showing the influence of Boulanger in moving him and his nation to a distinctive American music, away from European domination. Includes Naxos discography and caricature. www.naxos.com/../default.asp?pn=Composers&char=C&ComposerID=224
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