Aaron Copland

Chor unisono und Klavier

Chor unisono und Klavier

Danzón Cubano was composed in the fall of 1942, as a birthday piece to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the League of Composers. In its original form for two pianos, it was first played by Leonard Be...

Chor unisono und Klavier

Bariton und Männerchor (TTBB)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) has been called the Dean of American Composers. He was one of the first composers to use American folk idioms in his music. Hoe Down is taken from the ballad Rodeo, composed...

The Promise of Living is the stirring choral finale from Act I of The Tender Land, Copland's opera about life on a Great Plains farm. It is offered here in a brass quintet arrangement intended for edu...

Written originally for Orchestra and Chorus. Text by John Barbour. Transcribed here for Symphonic Band and Chorus. Duration: ca. 13 minutes.

Danza de Jalisco was commissioned by the Festival Foundation for the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, Italy. It was first performed there in July 1959, in the original version for chamber orchestra....