1930's The Arts | "Notes on a Cowboy Ballet"

Notes

By: Aaron Copland

Date: Unknown

Source: Copland, Aaron. "Notes on a Cowboy Ballet" in The Aaron Copeland Collection. New York: Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Reprinted online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov (accessed April 9, 2003).

About the Artist: Aaron Copland (1900–1990), born in Brooklyn, studied with Rubin Goldmark, a well-known figure in New York music. He later studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, but developed an avant-garde style all his own that he characterized as distinctly American. Copland composed award-winning music for films, ballets, theater, and opera. In addition, he lectured, taught, conducted, wrote books about music, and as a concert pianist recorded his own piano concerto.

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