It as only in Connotations (1962) that he returned to the avant-garde style that first brought him to fame. What can you say in summation of a man like Aaron Copland? Everything about him marked ...

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, ...

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 ...

Aaron Copland, and Sergei Rachmaninoff in their Autumn Concert at Severance Music Center on Sunday afternoon, November 24. That challenging program tested COYO’s musicianship. Not only does it ...