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Kevin Lindegaard introduces pianist Allan Schiller who is sat at his piano playing Simple Gifts

Happy 75th Birthday Appalachian Spring! Allan Schiller plays Simple Gifts

Copland Ballets, Keyboard
30 October 2019

09 September 2023

To mark the 75th anniversary of the premiere of Appalachian Spring – this monumental achievement of music and dance, Allan Schiller plays the Simple Gifts variations. To find out more about Allan Schiller and...

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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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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."

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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.

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