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    Aaron Copland (/ˈkoʊplənd/, KOHP-lənd; November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist and later a conductor...
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  • Copland may refer to: Copland (crater), on Mercury Copland (operating system) Copland (surname) Copland River in New Zealand 4532 Copland, an asteroid...
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    This is a list of compositions by Aaron Copland (1900–1990) in chronological order of composition: Old Poem for voice (1920) The Cat and the Mouse for...
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  • Rodeo is a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", the...
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  • Symphony No. 3 was Aaron Copland's final symphony. It was written between 1944 and 1946, and its first performance took place on October 18, 1946 with...
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    The Aaron Copland House, also known as Rock Hill or Copland House, is the former home of composer Aaron Copland for the last 30 years of his life, and...
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  • 1990, composer Aaron Copland's ashes were scattered over the Tanglewood Music Center. There is a memorial garden with a bust of Copland on the Tanglewood...
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  • and City College). The college is home to the Aaron Copland School of Music (named for Aaron Copland), which is located in the Music Building. The Music...
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    Appalachian Spring (category Ballets by Aaron Copland)
    Graham and the composer Aaron Copland, later arranged as an orchestral work. Commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Copland composed the ballet music...
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  • Lincoln Portrait (category Compositions by Aaron Copland)
    is a 1942 classical orchestral work written by the American composer Aaron Copland. The work involves a full orchestra, with particular emphasis on the...
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  • composed by Aaron Copland in 1948 at Republic Pictures and an LP was issued of the soundtrack. The orchestral suite, originally arranged by Copland for the...
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    Fanfare for the Common Man (category Compositions by Aaron Copland)
    Fanfare for the Common Man is a musical work by the American composer Aaron Copland. It was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under...
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  • Fanfare for the Common Man (Emerson, Lake & Palmer song) (category Compositions by Aaron Copland)
    Emerson from Aaron Copland's 1942 piece of the same name, it is one of their most popular and enduring pieces. ELP had previously adapted Copland's "Hoedown"...
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    Joseph Brackett from Alfred Shaker Village. It became widely known when Aaron Copland used its melody for the score of Martha Graham's ballet, Appalachian...
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    Leonard Bernstein (category Pupils of Aaron Copland)
    issues. In 1937, Bernstein sat next to Aaron Copland at a dance recital at Town Hall in New York City. Copland invited Bernstein to his birthday party...
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  • Copland is an operating system developed by Apple for Macintosh computers between 1994 and 1996 but never commercially released. It was intended to be...
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    July 2, 1976), was a professional photographer and life-long friend of Aaron Copland. Victor Kraft was born Victor Hugo Etler on August 8, 1915, in Oneonta...
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  • before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as...
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  • The Tender Land (category Operas by Aaron Copland)
    The Tender Land is an opera with music by Aaron Copland and libretto by Horace Everett, a pseudonym for Erik Johns. The opera tells of a farm family in...
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    England: Faber Music. ISBN 978-0-571-10087-3. Copland, Aaron (2004). Richard Kostelanetz (ed.). Aaron Copland – A Reader: Selected Writings, 1923–1972. London...
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  • Program music is a term applied to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to some preconceived...
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    composers known for their music mostly outside the film world include: Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill, Gian Carlo Menotti, Philip Glass, John Corigliano, Peter...
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  • the Rodeo ballet by Aaron Copland (1942). The most frequently heard version is from the Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo, which Copland extracted from the...
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    Stravinsky's revolutions of rhythm and modernism influenced composers like Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Béla Bartók, and Pierre Boulez, all of whom "felt impelled...
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  • The North Star (1943 film) (category Films scored by Aaron Copland)
    production design by William Cameron Menzies. The music was written by Aaron Copland, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and the cinematography by James Wong Howe...
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    Appalachia Waltz, Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer, 2000 Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland, 1944 Arabian Nights, Fikret Amirov, 1979 Arcade, to music by Igor Stravinsky...
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  • portraying Jesus' life and mission as a dance. The American composer Aaron Copland had earlier incorporated this Shaker tune into the music for his ballet...
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    2: A Free Song 1944: Howard Hanson, Symphony No. 4, Requiem 1945: Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, ballet 1946: Leo Sowerby, The Canticle of the Sun...
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    Biography Copland. "1900 through 1942" by Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis. ISBN 978-0-312-16962-6. Copland. "Since 1943" by Aaron Copland and Vivian...
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  • popular arias by Giacomo Puccini. In the early 1960s, the composer Aaron Copland joined forces with the swing clarinetist Benny Goodman and the concert...
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