Aaron Copland(1900-1990)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Aaron Copland is an Academy Award-winning composer
(The Heiress (1949)), author,
conductor, lecturer and educator. He was educated at public schools and
was a music student of his sister and later Leopold Wolfson, Victor
Wittgenstein, Clarence Adler, Rubin Goldmark and
Nadia Boulanger. In 1925, he received
the first Guggenheim fellowship awarded to a composer. He was a
lecturer for ten years at the New School for Social Research, a guest
lecturer at Harvard University between 1935 and 1944, and Dean of the
Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood from 1946. With Roger Sessions, he
organized the Copland-Sessions concert series for young American
composers, and he founded the American Festival of Contemporary Music,
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. He was a conductor in the United
States and abroad. As a guest conductor for the Boston Symphony, he
toured with Charles Münch throughout the
Far East in 1960. His memberships included the National Institute of
Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was
awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal, and
the US Medal of Freedom.
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- Soundtrack("John Henry", "Appalachian Springs", "Hoe-Down", "Down a Country Lane", "Grandfather's Story", "Our Town", "New England Countryside", "Dream March and Circus Music", "Letter from Home", "Orchestral Variations", "Fanfare for the Common Man", "Pas de Trois", "Lincoln Portrait", "Billy the Kid", "John Henry", "Appalachian Springs", "Hoe-Down", "Down a Country Lane", "Grandfather's Story", "Interlude", "Our Town", "New England Countryside", "Dream March and Circus Music", "Letter from Home", "Orchestral Variations", "Fanfare for the Common Man", "Pas de Trois", "Lincoln Portrait", "Billy the Kid")
