Spartiti Aaron Copland pianoforte

Aaron Copland's 'Scherzo Humoristique,' written in 1920, is indeed musically humorous as it depicts the skittering rodent and sinister feline in a demanding, but very enjoyable etude setting, using co...

From the time of Copland's first visit to Mexico City in 1932, when his friend Carlos Chávez took him out a nightclub called El Salón México, Copland wanted to compose a piece about the unusual dance...

Agnes de Mille suggested a cowboy ballet to the reluctant Ballet Russe. She said, I dug in my heels and said I wanted the best American composer for the music, Aaron Copland. Rodeo was an enormous suc...

Copland's famous ballet suite has never been published in a solo piano transcription. This new version is idiomatic for the instrument, retaining all the music from the standard 1945 orchestra suite.

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....

Passacaglia for piano was composed by Aaron Copland during his student days with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the early 1920's. The work is dedicated to Mlle. Boulanger. In its eight variations on an e...

Aaron Copland's music is characteristically and recognisably American. Copland's untiring efforts to ensure that his works would speak to the average citizen as well as to his fellow artists made him...