Check out some of these recordings of incredibly rare almost unknown Copland.
Just imagine for a minute you are at the Lincoln Centre's opening night back in 1962. You're there with the great and the good. You've paid the $200 ticket price and you're dressed up...
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.
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 Seeing a fully staged performance of The Tender Land has been on my bucket list for 30 years! It's now well and truly ticked off! Read my review of my recent trip to @TeatroRegio to see Copland's great opera get the love & respect it desrves! #AaronCopland
https://aaron-copland.com/the-tender-land-at-piccolo-regio-puccini-torino-review/
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