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Aaron COPLAND

14 November 1900 - 2 December 1990 (age 90)

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Aaron Copland, 20th century American composer of classical music with elements of jazz and american folk music.

Family

Born: Aaron Cohen November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York.
Father: Harris Morris Copland, (originally Kaplan) Lithuanian Jew, storekeeper
Mother: Sarah Mittenthal Copland,
Siblings: Ralph, Leon, Laurine, Josephine, Aaron was their fifth child
Ralph a good violinist. Sister Laurine gave him his first piano lessons.
Partners: Gay. Intermittent life-partner: photographer Victor Kraft
Children: none.
Cause of death: Alzheimer's disease
Grave: Ashes scattered. throughout Tanglewood Music Center in the Bershire Mountains of Massachusetts

Fanfare for the Common Man

Works

* Fanfare for the Common Man
* Short Symphony
* Dance Symphony
* Third Symphony
* Appalachian Spring (ballet)
* Grohg (ballet)
* Billy the Kid (ballet)
* Rodeo (ballet)
* Lincoln Portrait
* Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
* Dance Panels
* El Salon Mexico
* The Red Pony Suite
* Danzon Cubano
* Three Latin American Sketches
* Music for Theater
* Music for Movies

Quotes

-"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. "

- "To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."

- "A melody is not merely something you can hum."

- "So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning."

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