When Martha Graham’s ballet “Appalachian Spring” had its premiere on Oct. 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C., Aaron Copland was the voice of America. He had the gift to be simple. He wrote music that ...

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It would be cute to think that Aaron Copland was depicting spring in the Appalachian mountains of North America. But sadly he wasn’t, as the work was completed long before the title was assigned.

Aaron Copland was a city kid, a Brooklyn-born son of Jewish immigrants, yet he managed to write a piece of music that captured the essence of rural America and has become a classic. "Mr. Copland, when ...

The finest of the works Aaron Copland composed in his American vein is the ballet Appalachian Spring, written in 1943-44 for Martha Graham. The work's premiere took place in the Coolidge Auditorium of ...

In 1980, to mark his 80th birthday, Aaron Copland conducted the Harmonie Ensemble in the original version of his Appalachian Spring, and worked with its director Steve Richman on a performance of his ...

This is a well-played collection of Copland curios. Though Music for the Theatre is performed in the familiar version of the jazz-tinged work, Appalachian Spring here is the suite the composer ...

Aaron Copland, “Appalachian Spring,” “Symphonic Ode” and Piano Concerto, performed by the Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz conducting, and (in the Piano Concerto) Lorin Hollander (Delos DE 3154) This ...

With the pandemic keeping concert halls closed, Times classical music critic Mark Swed has been combing through works that suit the psychology of the moment and giving them a deep listen, covering ...

The sound of Americana will forever be in debt to composer Aaron Copland. His simple harmonies and melodies, and his use of folk and jazz idioms, helped establish a national musical style in America.

This all-American work was written for ballet choreographer and dancer Martha Graham (indeed, the original name on the score is ‘Ballet for Martha’). For an original fee of $500 (roughly the ...