How To Use Copland In A Sentence
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Shortly after Copland's death in 1990, Pollack decided the time was ripe for a fuller study of his life and work.
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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.
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The CD consists mostly of Copland film scores, in close to their original form.
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A Scottish kid in a kilt (he said it helped him get rides) disappeared up the Copland Pass trailhead.
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Aaron Copland was an energetic promoter of American music.
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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]
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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
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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.
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In the first act, called ‘Big Sky,’ to music by Aaron Copland, ghosts of pioneers emerge from the spacious, tawny earth.
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This recital will feature the music of Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, George Gershwin, Paul Schoenfield, Yehudi Wyner and Arlene Zallman.
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For reasons having little to do with music, none of the dances here have held on to the repertory, as the Stravinsky and Copland ballets have, for example.
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The second movement, in triple rhythm, is Copland ‘big shoulder’ music trimmed to the chamber ensemble.
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That's an unfair characterisation though it's easy to see how Copland acquired such a reputation.
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Another response to a visual stimulus was Thomson's series of musical portraits of people such as Picasso and Aaron Copland.
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So Mr. Williams fashioned a work that evokes the melancholic, calmly affirming, harmonically open-hearted world of Copland.
A New Williams Work for a Momentous Occasion - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Whatever the virtues of his output heretofore, Copland could certainly not be called a melodist.
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Two of the boldest American iconoclasts were film-maker John Ford and classical composer Aaron Copland.
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Copland, of course, owed a lot to the Russian Stravinsky, but not his sense of melody, embedded in the American vernacular.
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For instance, we can hear Copland-esque rhythmic jauntiness in mailman Mario's funny exchanges with Neruda and out-takes of Britten's Peter Grimes to indicate foreboding, and even hints of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in some choral passages.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
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Philip Glass was probably the last one whose name would be passably well known to the public at large, and even Mr. Glass isn't nearly as famous as, say, Aaron Copland.
The Best Composer You've Never Heard Of
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For reasons having little to do with music, none of the dances here have held on to the repertory, as the Stravinsky and Copland ballets have, for example.
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Unstintingly melodic, he wrote in long, arching lines that contradicted the jagged, urban rhythms of Copland and Bernstein, his close contemporaries.
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The Schoenbergians and Webernistes didn't fit him all that well (his own twelve-tone music derived from Stravinsky and Copland).
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Copland was trying to prop up a nationalist mythology, admittedly from a leftist perspective, but hardly as revolutionary as 1920s Europe.
Just Another Rhumb Line
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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]
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There is an energetic freshness to this orchestral music that will resonate with those already familiar with Copland’s works.
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Copland (1900-1990), a first-generation American Jew of Lithuanian origin, forged an American musical style that evokes the vastness of the Western frontier.
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Aaron Copland's Duo for Flute and Piano is more serious in tone, though no less tuneful.
