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Showing posts with label Aaron Copland. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Aaron Copland. Show all posts

Sunday, May 24, 2020

This Day in Classical Music History (Copland-Scored ‘Our Town’ Opens in Theaters)

May 24, 1940-- Our Town , Hollywood’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder , with a screenplay by the playwr...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

This Day in Classical Music History (Copland’s ‘Lincoln Portrait’ Performed on Barge)

July 4, 1942—Two months after its premiere in Cincinnati, Aaron Copland’s homage to America’s 16 th President, Lincoln Portrait for Spe...

Saturday, April 21, 2012

This Day in Classical Music History (Welles Helms Copland Opera for Students)

April 21, 1937—He was barely older than those he was directing, and his fervid imagination was already turning to a new project, but 21-ye...

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Quote of the Day (Thornton Wilder, on Music and His Plays)

''I'm convinced I write amusical plays: that my texts 'swear at' music; that they're after totally different effec...

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