Curtis plays Copland. Or, listening to the ‘Great American Symphony’ in fraught times. The Curtis orchestra concert was a ...

The tempo of the music is fast and exciting. Aaron Copland (pronounced AIR-uhn KOHP-luhnd) was possibly the most famous American composer of the 20th century. He was one of the first 'serious ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login A pioneering study of how American composer Aaron Copland helped shape the sound of the Hollywood film industry and introduced the ...

Andrew Keener spoke to the American composer on the occasion of his 80th birthday in the February 1980 issue... Read more Born in a humble street in Brooklyn, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, Copland ...

Aaron Copland grew up in Brooklyn far from the mainstream ... It’s ironic that a composer who lived virtually his whole life in the big city was able to write about this American frontier.