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to the Pulitzer Prize-winning _Appalachian_ _Spring_ found both popular Aaron Copland success and critical acclaim. His decision to 'say it in the simplest possible terms' alienated some of his peers, who saw in it a repudiation of musical progress -- theirs and his own. But many who had been drawn to Copland's music through his use of familiar melodies were in turn perplexed by his use, beginning in the mid-1950's, of an individualized 12-tone compositional technique. His orchestral works _Connotations_ (1962) and _Inscape_ (1967) stand as perhaps the definitive statements of his mature, 'difficult' style. Copland never ceased to be an emissary and advocate of new music. In 1951, he became the first American composer to hold the position of Norton Aaron Copland photo © Roman Freulich Professor of Poetics at Harvard University; his lectures there were published as _Music and Imagination._ For 25 years he was a leading member of the An introduction to the music of Aaron Copland faculty at the Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood). Throughout his career, he nurtured the careers of others, including Leonard Bernstein, Carlos Aaron Copland's name is, for many, synonymous with American music. It was Chavez, Toru Takemitsu, and David Del Tredici. He took up conducting while his pioneering achievement to break free from Europe and create a concert in his fifties, becoming a persuasive interpreter of his own music; he music that is recognizably, characteristically American. At the same time, he continued to conduct in concerts, on the radio, and on television until he was was able to stamp his music with a compositional personality so vivid as to 83. transcend stylistic boundaries, making every work -- from the easily-grasped to the demanding -- identifiable as his alone. Aaron Copland was one of the most honored cultural figures in the history of the United States. The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Kennedy Center From his early studies in piano he proceeded, at age 17, to study harmony, Award, the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 'Oscar', counterpoint, and sonata form with Rubin Goldmark, whose staunchly and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of conservative outlook inspired Copland to rebellious investigation of the music Germany were only a few of the honors and awards he received. In addition, of Debussy, Ravel, Mussorgsky, and Scriabin. In 1920, he set out for Paris, he was president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a fellow of the modernism's home in the years between the wars. Among the many vital Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Society of Arts in England; helped legacies of his stay in Paris were his association with his teacher and mentor found the American Composers Alliance; was an early and prominent Nadia Boulanger; a growing interest in popular idioms; and the insight that member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; there was as yet no American counterpart to the national styles being created served as director or board member of the American Music Center, the by composers from France, Russia, and Spain. He became determined to Koussevitzky Foundation, the League of Composers, and other organizations; create, in his words, 'a naturally American strain of so-called serious music.' received honorary doctorates from over 40 colleges and universities. In 1982, The Aaron Copland School of Music was established in his honor at Queens Upon his return to America in 1924, his career was launched when Serge College of the City University of New York. Koussevitzky, whom he had met in Paris, agreed to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Copland's _Organ Symphony,_ with Boulanger as soloist. When performed in New York under Walter Damrosch, the dissonant, angular work created a sensation. But Copland saw a broader role for himself than mere iconoclast. He sought to further the cause of new music as a vital cultural force. He accomplished this not only by composing, but also by lecturing and writing on new music, and by organizing the groundbreaking Copland-Sessions concerts in New York, which brought many works of the European avant-garde to U.S. audiences for the first time. As America entered first a Depression, and then a war, Copland began to share many of his fellow artists' commitment to capturing a wider audience and speaking to the concerns of the average citizen in those times of trouble. His intentions were fulfilled as works from _Billy the Kid_ to _Lincoln Portrait_ OPERAS 1 OPERAS 1 OPERAS The Second Hurricane 1936 53 min A play opera in two acts for school performance 2S,A,2T,Bar,B,3adult speakers; mixed chorus 1(=picc).1.2.asax(=tsax).1-0.2.1.0-timp.perc:susp.cym/cyms/SD/BD/ glsp/xyl/tgl/tam-t-pft-musical saw(or theremin)-strings 9790051951901 (Vocal Score) Availability: This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world 9790051951932 (Choral Score) World Premiere: 21 Apr 1937 At The Playhouse, 466 Grand Street, New York, New York, United States Orson Welles, director; Music School of the Henry Street Settlement Conductor: Lehman Engel The Tender Land 1952-54, rev.1955 1 hr 40 min Opera in three acts 2S,M,A,2T,2Bar,B,speaker; chorus 2(II=picc).1.corA.2(II=bcl).2-2.2.2.0-timp.perc(2):glsp/tgl/SD/wdbl/ xyl/susp.cym/ratchet/BD/slap stick/tabor/sandpaper-harp-pft(ad lib)- strings Chamber version by Murry Sidlin (1987): 1.0.1.1-0.0.0.0-pft-strings(4.0.2.2.1) 9790051951505 (Vocal Score) World Premiere: 01 Apr 1954 City Center, New York, NY, United States Jerome Robbins, director; 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    AARON COPLAND: A CATALOGUE OF THE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC 1922-25/32: Ballet “Grogh”: 30 minutes 1922-25: Dance Symphony: 18 minutes 1923: “Cortege macabre” for orchestra: 8 minutes 1923-28: Two Pieces for String Orchestra: 10 minutes 1924: Symphony for Organ and orchestra: 24 minutes 1925: Suite “Music for the Theater” for small orchestra: 21 minutes 1926: Piano Concerto: 16 minutes 1927-29/55: Symphonic Ode for orchestra: 19 minutes 1928: Symphony No.1 (revised version of Symphony for Organ) 1930/57: Orchestral Variations: 12 minutes 1931-33: Short Symphony (Symphony No.2): 15 minutes 1934/35: Ballet “Hear Ye! Hear Ye!”: 32 minutes 1934-35: “Statements” for orchestra: 18 minutes 1936: “El salon Mexico” for orchestra: 10 minutes 1937: “Prairie Journal” (“Music for Radio”) for orchestra: 11 minutes 1938: Ballet “Billy the Kid”: 32 minutes (and Ballet Suite: 22 minutes) (and extracted Waltz and Celebration for concert band: 6 minutes) 1940/41: “An Outdoor Overture” for orchestra or concert band: 10 minutes 1940: Suite “A Quiet City” for trumpet, cor anglais and strings: 10 minutes 1940/52: “John Henry” for orchestra: 4 minutes 1942: “A Lincoln Portrait” for narrator and orchestra or concert band: 15 minutes Ballet “Rodeo”: 23 minutes (and Four Dance Episodes: 19 minutes) “Fanfare for the Common Man” for brass and percussion: 2 minutes “Music for the Movies” for orchestra: 17 minutes 1942/44: “Danzon Cubano” for orchestra: 6 minutes 1943: “Song of the Guerillas” for orchestra 1944: Ballet “Appalachian Spring” for orchestra or chamber orchestra: