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A CELEBRATION OF COPLAND'S WORK
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Aaron Copland, often dubbed "The President of American Music,"
will never become the president emeritus -- even though it has been
more than a dozen years since he has composed any music. What he
did, and the example he set, is permanently with us. His music has
helped define the nature of being an American, but it goes farther
than that, because it also helps define human nature. Some of his
music is friendly, useful and usual, natural; some of it seems
mightily wrested out of nature. For Cop...
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Musicians celebrate Aaron Copland's centennial.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Everybody knows Aaron Copland, even people who don't think they do. Remember the musical theme from the ad for beef producers, the brassy one that sounds like cowboys whooping it up? That's the ``Hoedown'' section from Copland's ballet score, ``Rodeo There are lots more where that came from. If a
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How Aaron Copland Became the Macher of American Music: Aaron Copland;
Forward
; Forward 03-19-1999 How Aaron Copland Became the Macher of American Music: Aaron Copland; The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man The first time I heard Aaron Copland's music -- the ballet "Billy the Kid," to be precise -- was in 1953, when I was 8 years old. It was during a theory class at the old
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`Copland's America'
Chicago Sun-Times
; `Copland's America' 1 p.m. Sunday WTTW-Channel 11 Recommended Even people who have never set foot in a concert hall or browsed the classical section of the nearest record megastore know the music of Aaron Copland. The stirring opening bars of "Fanfare for the Common Man" are as familiar as "The
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COMPOSER AARON COPLAND DIES
The Boston Globe
; Aaron Copland, the composer who did the most to define the American experience in music, died yesterday in Phelps Memorial Hospital in Westchester, N.Y. He was 90. Mr. Copland, who lived in a cabin overlooking the Hudson River in Peekskill, N.Y., had been in failing health for most of the last
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Aaron Copland and His World.(Book review)
Notes
; Aaron Copland and His World. Edited by Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. [xxi, 503 p. ISBN 0-691-12470-1. $22.95.] Music examples, index, notes, photographs. Aaron Copland was the subject of the 2005 summer festival at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.
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