Aaron Copland
Hayden Bennett
MUHL 332: Music History III
Aaron Copland was born at the end of the turn of the century on November 14, 1900. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to Harris and Sarah Copland. Aaron grew up in Brooklyn helping his parents and 4 older sibling run a department store. Aaron was a salesman in the Toy department. Music became an interest of Aarons when he was seven, when he would spend hours listening to records on his cousin’s brand new phonograph. Eventually, Aaron’s sister Laurine started giving Aaron some lessons on piano, which he excelled at. When Aaron became a teenager, his parents agreed to pay for a real piano teacher to learn piano from. In his twenties, Aaron got the chance to study abroad in Paris, France, which was the modern-music center of the world.
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Throughout 1951 and 1952, Aaron gave the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard, which were later published as ‘Music and Imagination.’ Throughout the 1960’s, Aaron toured, conducted, and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. The last 40 years of Aaron’s life, he was praised and received several awards, ranging from a Pulitzer Prize for ‘Appalachian Spring’, to an Oscar for the score of ‘The Heiress’ and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
On December 2, 1990, Aaron Copland died in North Tarrytown, New York. (Bonds) Copland’s music career spanned through most of his life and about five different genres. There were his Ballets, ‘Billy the Kid’ and ‘Rodeo’, and his orchestral works, such as ‘Appalachian Spring’ and ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’. He wrote in the songs genre, with pieces such as ‘The Twelve Poems of Emily Dickenson’ and ‘Old American Songs’. His chamber pieces were ‘Piano Variations’ and ‘Vitebsk’. Aaron also wrote in the Film genre composing the score to the 1950’s movie ‘The
Hayden Bennett
MUHL 332: Music History III
Aaron Copland was born at the end of the turn of the century on November 14, 1900. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to Harris and Sarah Copland. Aaron grew up in Brooklyn helping his parents and 4 older sibling run a department store. Aaron was a salesman in the Toy department. Music became an interest of Aarons when he was seven, when he would spend hours listening to records on his cousin’s brand new phonograph. Eventually, Aaron’s sister Laurine started giving Aaron some lessons on piano, which he excelled at. When Aaron became a teenager, his parents agreed to pay for a real piano teacher to learn piano from. In his twenties, Aaron got the chance to study abroad in Paris, France, which was the modern-music center of the world.
In Paris, Aaron studied …show more content…
Throughout 1951 and 1952, Aaron gave the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard, which were later published as ‘Music and Imagination.’ Throughout the 1960’s, Aaron toured, conducted, and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. The last 40 years of Aaron’s life, he was praised and received several awards, ranging from a Pulitzer Prize for ‘Appalachian Spring’, to an Oscar for the score of ‘The Heiress’ and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
On December 2, 1990, Aaron Copland died in North Tarrytown, New York. (Bonds) Copland’s music career spanned through most of his life and about five different genres. There were his Ballets, ‘Billy the Kid’ and ‘Rodeo’, and his orchestral works, such as ‘Appalachian Spring’ and ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’. He wrote in the songs genre, with pieces such as ‘The Twelve Poems of Emily Dickenson’ and ‘Old American Songs’. His chamber pieces were ‘Piano Variations’ and ‘Vitebsk’. Aaron also wrote in the Film genre composing the score to the 1950’s movie ‘The