Aaron copland family biography interview

  • The Aaron Copland Oral History comprises approximately 75 interviews with colleagues, friends, and family of Aaron Copland (note: for interviews with.
  • Aaron Copland discusses his music, his colleagues, contemporaries, musicians, and composers.
  • An excerpt Aaron Copland talking about his history as a composer and Guggenheim Foundation helping propel his career.

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    Aaron Copland was never just a composer; he was always an American composer. From the moment he sailed for Paris at age 20, his nationality was his main identifying trait. Certainly, Copland's identity, tastes, influences, and musical style cannot be contained by the adjective "American," but Copland often wrote and thought about himself in those terms. Today, we’ll begin a two-part reflection on some of Copland's best-known statements about being American.

    The comments Copland made on being a composer in the United States fall into three rough categories. Some are autobiographical. Others describe techniques composers could use to make music sound American. Still others concern society: what was the composer's role in the U.S, and who were the audiences for concert music?

    An American Autobiography

    Copland's first significant published autobiographical statement appeared in The Magazine of Art in In his telling, his origins were thoroughly American, but far from idyllic.

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    The Aaron Copland Oral History comprises approximately 75 interviews with colleagues, friends, and family of Aaron Copland (note: for interviews with Copland himself, see the Major Figures in American Music collection). Oral History of American Music (OHAM) founder Vivian Perlis first became friends with Copland while working on the Charles Ives Oral History. Copland later wrote the preface for her book, Charles Ives Remembered. As the Ives project finished, Perlis focused on Copland as her new subject. From to , she conducted many hours of interviews with Copland and those closest to him. Finally, in and , their efforts culminated in the autobiographies, Copland: through and Copland: Since , co-authored by Perlis.

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    Bean, Betty
    Berger, Arthur
    Bernier, Rose
    Bernstein, Leonard
    Bowles, Paul
    Burkat, Leonard
    Clurman, Harold
    Conroy, William
    Copland, Aaron
    Copland, Irving
    Copland, Milton
    Curtin, Phyllis
    Lederman Daniel, Minna
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    Del Tredici, David
    Mille, Agnes De
    Denby, Edwin
    Diamond, David
    Drieblatt, Martha
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    Furman, Selma
    Garfein, Jack
    Ginastera, Alberto
    Goldstein, Sylvia
    Gould, Morton
    Haieff, Alexei
    Hawkins, Erick
     Heinsheimer, Hans
    Johns, Erik
    Kober, John
    Kraut, Harry
    Lang, Pearl
    Lescaze, Mary
    Lewis, Bobby
    de Manziarly, Marcelle
    Marlin, Felice
    Mittenthal, Arnold
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    Orbon, Julian
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