The Definitive Guide to Copland Endings: Part 2
- Copland Playlists, Copland's music analysed
- 10 January 2021
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...
About Me
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.
Newsletter Signup
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 CoplandCategories
- Aaron Copland & Leonard Bernstein (2)
- Book reviews (7)
- CD / Streaming Reviews (5)
- Contemporary classical (9)
- Copland & Me (6)
- Copland 125 (1)
- Copland Ballets (10)
- Copland Chamber works (4)
- Copland Choral Music (1)
- Copland Opera (2)
- Copland Playlists (5)
- Copland Quotes (1)
- Copland's life & legacy (10)
- Copland's music analysed (3)
- Film music (7)
- Incidental music (4)
- Keyboard (5)
- Music for television (1)
- News (1)
- Orchestral (19)
- Performance reviews (31)
- Rare Copland (4)
- Songs (1)
- Women composers (5)
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