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The subsequent "Ranch House Party" (ballet only) was envisioned by de Mille as "Dance music inside. Night music outside." Indeed, the section (written by Leonard Bernstein on behalf of an overworked Copland) opens with a honky-tonk theme played on a piano, accompanied by a more thoughtful clarinet. The Cowgirl finds herself between the Champion ...
Prairie Journal, originally called Music for Radio for orchestra (1937) Waltz and Celebration for concert band (1938) Billy the Kid; ballet (1938) An Outdoor Overture for orchestra (1938) Lark for chorus (1938) The City; documentary film score (1939) Of Mice and Men; film score (1939) From Sorcery to Science; incidental music for puppet play (1939)
Aaron Copland (/ ˈ k oʊ p l ə n d /, KOHP-lənd; [1] [2] November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Composers".
Aaron Copland’s score to Martha Graham’s classic ballet offered the gift of simplicity, an evocation of open landscape and, most important, of spiritual renewal. Its promise of a new life ...
Music for a Great City is an orchestral composition by Aaron Copland completed in 1964. The piece was commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra in celebration of its sixtieth anniversary season and is dedicated to the members of the orchestra. The music was first performed in the Royal Festival Hall on May 26, 1964, with Copland conducting ...
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 conductor Eugene Goossens and was inspired in part by a speech made earlier that year by then American Vice President Henry A. Wallace, in which Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet written by the American composer Aaron Copland on commission from Lincoln Kirstein. It was choreographed by Eugene Loring for Ballet Caravan . Along with Rodeo and Appalachian Spring , it is one of Copland's most popular and widely performed pieces.
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 Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, in the John Hay Library at Brown University. [1] Originally scored for voice and piano, they were reworked for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and ...