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1900–90 American composer Born in Brooklyn of Russian Jewish parents (his surname is an immigration officer’s mishearing of the family name, Kaplan), Copland became the archetypal composer of the American West, his style much imitated by the writers of Hollywood film scores. Trained in Paris by Nadia Boulanger, he was strongly influenced by Stravinsky and began using jazz ...

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York City and moved to Seattle. In the early Nineties Frisell made two of his best-known albums: Have A Little Faith (1992), an ambitious album tackling Charles Ives and Aaron Copland (‘Billy The Kid’), John Hiatt (the title song), Bob Dylan (‘Just Like A Woman’), and Madonna (‘Live To Tell’); and This Land 1992), a complementary set of originals. He also ...

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(A’-no-yo-hä’-ne Rau’-te-vä’-rer) b. 1928 Finnish composer Rautavaara studied at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, and then at the Juilliard School, New York, with Copland, Sessions and others. His early works show the influences of neo-classicism and serialism. His atmospheric Cantus arcticus (1972) for orchestra with taped birdsong marked the onset of a mystical phase, characterized by ...

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with striking stage pictures. Recommended Recording: Adriana Lecouvreur, soloists, Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus and Orchestra (cond) Franco Capuana (Decca) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Aaron Copland | Modern Era | Classical ...

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to conducting and teaching, something she once described as ‘a sacred form of life’. One of the most respected teachers of the century, Lili included among her students Copland, Philip Glass (b. 1937) and Thea Musgrave (b. 1928). Recommended Recording: Du fond de l’abîme, Psalm 24, Faust et Hélène, etc., soloists, CBSO Chorus ...

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years in Europe (where he encountered Schoenberg’s music and witnessed the rise of Fascism), Sessions was regarded in the US as a more European than American composer. Though friendly with Copland (they organized a concert series together) he wrote disparagingly of ‘Americana’. He eventually adopted serialism, but his music (including two operas and eight symphonies) is in fact characteristically American ...

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ears lie back in an easy chair.’ Charles Ives Leading Exponents Claude Debussy Charles Ives Maurice Ravel Béla Bartók Igor Stravinsky Arnold Schoenberg Anton Webern Alban Berg Edgard Varèse Aaron Copland George Gershwin Dmitri Shostakovich Ralph Vaughan Williams Michael Tippett Benjamin Britten Twentieth Century Style Pentatonic scales are indicative of the simple and effective modes that are utilized to create vivid ...

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perform. His evolution of Gebrauchsmusik (‘utility music’) was very much in the spirit of the Neue Sachlichkeit (‘new objectivity’) of the Weimar Republic. The same desire for comprehensibility led Aaron Copland (1900–90) in the US to abandon his earlier avant-garde style in favour of a more melodic, more deliberately American style with his ballets such as Billy the Kid (1938) ...

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restrained diatonic language of the Bachianas Brasilieras (1930–44). In the US, Ives and Thomson made extensive use of the hymn-tunes of the Sunday School and revival meetings, while Copland quoted published cowboy melodies in his popular ballets Billy the Kid (1938) and Rodeo (1942). Opera after Wagner If, in the twentieth century, opera could no longer spearhead ...

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Piano Concerto in F (1925), while others contented themselves with commissioning works: in addition to Bartók’s chamber work Contrasts (1938), the clarinettist Benny Goodman elicited concertos from Hindemith (1947) and Copland (1947–48). Styles & Forms | Modern Era | Classical Influences | Gamelan Orchestra | Modern Era | Classical ...

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in films. A famous exception was Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), whose scores include the Academy Award-winning The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Other American composers to write for film include Copland, whose score for The Heiress (1949) won an Academy Award, and Thomson, winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for film music, for Louisiana Story (1948). Film ...