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The Definitive Guide to Copland Endings: Part 2

Copland was a fabulously talented composer who had the ability not only to paint pictures with his music but also describe many complex emotions. When he wasn’t writing programme music for ballets and film...
Aaron Copland black and white image with his hand out

Think you know the music of Aaron Copland? Think again!

Aaron Copland is known principally for a handful of works composed in the late 1930’s and 1940’s. The aim of this blog is to introduce his relatively unknown and neglected pieces to a wider...
Picture montage of Aaron Copland listening to Leonard Bernstein with a score of Connotations for Orchestra

Connotations for Orchestra

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...