Copland, Aaron 1900-1990

What to listen for in music by Aaron Copland ( Book )
84 editions published between 1939 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 4,495 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Explains how to listen from the composers point of view

Billy the Kid : ballet suite by Aaron Copland ( )
170 editions published between 1920 and 2007 in 6 languages and held by 3,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A pioneer celebration in spring around a newly-built farmhouse in the Pennsylvania hills in the early part of the last century. The bride-to-be and the young farmer-husband enact the emotions, joyful and apprehensive, their new domestic partnership invites. An older neighbor suggests now and then the rocky confidence of experience. A revivalist and his followers remind the new householders of the strange and terrible aspects of human fate. At the end, the couple are left quiet and strong in their new house."--Summarized by Edwin Denby (Copland's librettist for the 1937 high school opera The Second Hurricane) and as reported of the New York premiere in the Herald Tribune of May 15, 1945

Music and imagination by Aaron Copland ( Book )
93 editions published between 1952 and 2003 in 5 languages and held by 2,152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Describes the all important role of the imagination in the composition, performance, appreciation and intelligent comprehension of music and surveys its influence on contemporary music

Copland on music by Aaron Copland ( Book )
48 editions published between 1960 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Old American songs, newly arranged by Aaron Copland ( )
114 editions published between 1950 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,859 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Copland conducts Copland by Aaron Copland ( Recording )
48 editions published between 1969 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 1,708 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new music, 1900-1960 by Aaron Copland ( Book )
23 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in 3 languages and held by 1,643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The composer provides an introduction to the formative musical ideas of our century, and a survey of recent and current trends

El Salón México : popular type dance hall in Mexico City by Aaron Copland ( )
101 editions published between 1930 and 2000 in 5 languages and held by 1,411 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Christopher and his kind, 1929-1939 by Christopher Isherwood ( Book )
1 edition published in 1976 in English and held by 1,163 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Christopher and His Kind is an intriguing slice of autobiography. It covers ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to the beginning of 1939, when he arrived in New York to start a life in the States. The book revealingly contrasts fact with fiction-the real people Isherwood met in Germany with the portraits of them in his two Berlin novels, who then appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret. But one does not need to be familiar with his body of work to appreciate the powerful and compelling story he tells here. Isherwood left Berlin in 1933, after Hitler came to power. For the next four years, he wandered around Europe-through Greece, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France-with a German boy named Heinz. The characters in the book include W.H. Auden, Stephen Sper, and E.M. Forster as well as the literary circles of Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf. Chronicling German refugees and the British colony in Portugal, the Group Theatre company (which performed the three Auden-Isherwood plays) and the film studio where he worked and which he used as the setting for Prater Violet, Christopher and His Kind is an engrossing and powerfully rendered portrait of a decade in the life of a major writer

Appalachian spring by Aaron Copland ( Recording )
147 editions published between 1950 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 1,125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Appalachian Spring: Ballet by Martha Graham / Music for The Theatre: Suite for small orchestra / Three Latin American Sketches for orchestra / Quiet City: Concert piece for English horn, trumpet and strings