• 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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  • Clementi Symphony No. 3 (Copland) by Aaron Copland, 1944–46 Symphony No. 3 (Corigliano) (Circus Maximus) by John Corigliano, 2005 Symphony No. 3 (Cowell)...
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    composer-pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Copland decided to become a composer. At age 16, Copland heard his first symphony at the Brooklyn Academy of Music....
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  • Short Symphony, or Symphony No. 2, is a symphony written by the American composer Aaron Copland from 1931 to 1933. The name derives from the symphony's short...
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  • Copland composed his Symphony No. 3, in 1947 jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman commissioned him to write a concerto for clarinet. Goodman told Copland biographer...
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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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  • 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 Houston...
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    Fanfare for the Common Man (category Compositions by Aaron Copland)
    musical work by the American composer Aaron Copland. It was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens and...
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  • composer Aaron Copland. The work was commissioned by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky who was then music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It...
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  • Aaron Copland wrote the Symphony for Organ and Orchestra in 1924. It represents a major work in the composer's oeuvre, as it was his first fully realized...
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    The Symphony No. 3 by Carlos Chávez was composed in 1951–54 on a commission from Clare Boothe Luce, and is dedicated to the memory of her daughter, Anne...
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  • Bernstein "The Planets", Holst "Appalachian Springs for Small Ensemble", Copland "Symphony No.2", Rachmaninoff "Concertino for Trombone", David "Cello Concerto...
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    New York Symphony Orchestra, presented one of the first orchestra concerts in New York City directed at a younger audience, entitled "Symphony Concert...
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    Appalachian Spring (category Ballets by Aaron Copland)
    Copland the Pulitzer Prize for Music during its 1945 United States tour. The orchestral suite composed in 1945 was played that year by many symphony orchestras;...
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    Connotations is a classical music composition for symphony orchestra written by American composer Aaron Copland. Commissioned by Leonard Bernstein in 1962 to...
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  • Symphony No. 1 (Copland) (Symphony for Organ and Orchestra) by Aaron Copland, 1924 Symphony No. 1 (Corigliano) by John Corigliano, 1988–89 Symphony No...
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  • The Piano Variations of American composer Aaron Copland were written for piano solo from January to October 1930. They were dedicated to American writer...
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  • Cleobury, EMI 1991 (reissued by Warner on Copland: Billy the Kid, Rodeo & In the Beginning Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin) Catherine Denley...
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  • Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (category Song cycles by Aaron Copland)
    the American composer Aaron Copland. Completed in 1950 and lasting for just under half an hour, it represents Copland's longest work for solo voice....
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  • the great masters." Of Copland's works, Shapero always admired the Short Symphony, even after Copland's popular Symphony No. 3, of which "Shapero criticized...
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  • El Salón México (Aaron Copland, arranged by Schifrin) 6:42 8) Slaughter On 10th Avenue (Richard Rodgers, arranged by Schifrin) 3:59 9) Prelude Number 2...
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  • Old American Songs (category Song cycles by Aaron Copland)
    Old American Songs are two sets of songs arranged by Aaron Copland in 1950 and 1952 respectively, after research in the Sheet Music Collection of the...
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  • Quiet City (music) (category Orchestral compositions by Aaron Copland)
    orchestra by Aaron Copland. In the published score, the composer indicates "use Oboe only if no English Horn is available." In 1939, Copland wrote incidental...
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    Suite in F. For the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary, he commissioned Copland's Ode, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 (which Prokofiev later revised)...
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  • such pieces are Camille Saint-Saëns's Symphony No. 3 and the Symphony for Organ and Orchestra by Aaron Copland, though strictly speaking such pieces are...
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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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    Danzón cubano (category Piano compositions by Aaron Copland)
    was premiered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on February 17, 1946, Reginald Stewart conducting. However, Copland revisited the piece many times during...
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    premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 (1912), its first recordings (1917), first national tours, and the world premieres of Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common...
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  • Lincoln Portrait (category Orchestral compositions by Aaron Copland)
    Springfield Mountain". Copland finished Lincoln Portrait in April 1942. The first performance was by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on 14 May 1942...
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  • El Salón México (category Orchestral compositions by Aaron Copland)
    symphonic composition in one movement by Aaron Copland, which uses Mexican folk music extensively. Copland began the work in 1932 and completed it in 1936...
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