Copland

How To Use Copland In A Sentence

• Shortly after Copland's death in 1990, Pollack decided the time was ripe for a fuller study of his life and work.
• Owen returned after the interval as soloist in Constant Lambert's Rio Grande, and the programme ended, for no very obvious reason, with Copland's Rodeo.
• The CD consists mostly of Copland film scores, in close to their original form.
• A Scottish kid in a kilt (he said it helped him get rides) disappeared up the Copland Pass trailhead.
• Aaron Copland was an energetic promoter of American music.
• All grades of "vagrom men," with their frauds and shifts, are passed in review, and when Copland asks about their "bousy" speech, the porter entertains him with these lines. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
• I heard John Harbison, who in addition to his composing, is president of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, tell this story: the Fund got a call from the Bush inaugural committee, who wanted to do an arrangement of "Fanfare for the Common Man" for heraldic trumpets (you know, the kind you always see in movies about the Roman Empire — hmmm). Synchronicity
• Copland's populism represented a voluntary retreat from hard-edged modernism in an attempt to reach a wider public at a time of economic hardship.
• In the first act, called ‘Big Sky,’ to music by Aaron Copland, ghosts of pioneers emerge from the spacious, tawny earth.
• This recital will feature the music of Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, George Gershwin, Paul Schoenfield, Yehudi Wyner and Arlene Zallman.