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How I taught myself to love the music of Roy Harris: Part 1

Copland Quotes, Roy Harris
18 August 2025

19 August 2025

I have been on a long journey (yes, another one!). In the beginning it wasn’t really a journey I wanted to take or was in any way prepared for. At times it felt like...

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Line drawing of aaron Copland reading a score

Copland 125 – Aaron Copland speaks to me from the page

Copland Quotes, Copland's life & legacy
21 July 2024

25 April 2025

Aaron Copland died on 2 December, 1990. I had just turned 20 and was at Swansea University. I watched the BBC News and there was an obituary. I can remember the black and white...

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Kevin Lindegaard

Hello I'm Kevin Lindegaard and I'm a huge fan of the music of Aaron Copland. I hope my blog will help spread the legacy of this colossus of 20th Century Music. I'm no musician myself but I have ears and I will try to communicate what moves me about Copland's music.

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Favourite Quote

I was well aware that I had become typecast as a purveyor of Americana in music. I knew this was not the whole story, or even the best of the story."

-Aaron Copland

Favourite Quote

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

- Aaron Copland