Aaron Copland grew up in Brooklyn far from the mainstream elegance of Carnegie Hall. The son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he went to public school, took piano lessons, and was mitzvahed at the Kane ...

Read more Born in a humble street in Brooklyn, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, Copland is generally regarded as the first indisputably great American composer. The piano came easily to him and, ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login A pioneering study of how American composer Aaron Copland helped shape the sound of the Hollywood film industry and introduced the ...

Step. The initial melody leaps about - it can’t keep still. Aaron Copland created this music to be danced to inspired by music cowboys liked to dance to. It has a party atmosphere. The tempo of ...

In addition to offering a biography of this influential early legal thinker ... University Women Dissertation Fellowship in 2004.De Graaf recently contributed to Aaron Copland and His World, ed.

Lewis Porter, who wrote the definitive biography of John Coltrane ... Ursula Oppens, best known in classical circles, lends ...

At the Kennedy Center, the symphony’s program of Copland, Carlos Simon and Jessie Montgomery considered and reconsidered the sound of American music.

His unique contributions to improvised music have garnered distinguished recognition, including a Doris Duke Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland award, and two Grammy Award ...

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Jacqui Copland is a Scottish vocalist. Jacqui began her musical career as a member of an Aberdeen (Scotland) band called Private ID, followed by a move to London becoming the lead singer of the ...

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Lemn Sissay explores Copland's music from Rodeo with beautiful animation. Originally composed in 1942 for a ballet called Rodeo, the Hoe-Down features two American square dance tunes and fuses ...