His private dining room has become a way station for visiting intellectuals such as C. P. Snow, Arnold Toynbee, and Aaron Copland.

* 1990 – Aaron Copland, American composer ( b. 1900 )

* November 14 – Aaron Copland, American composer ( d. 1990 )

In the United States, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Randall Thompson wrote signature American pieces.

In his film score for " Of Mice and Men " ( 1939 ) and consequently in his collection " Music for the Movies " ( 1942 ), American composer Aaron Copland titled a section of the score " Threshing Machines ," to suit a scene in the Lewis Milestone film where Curley is threatening Slim over giving May a puppy, when many of the itinerant worker men are standing around or working on threshers.

Ravel maintained his influential participation with the SMI which continued its active role of promoting new music, particularly of British and American composers such as Arnold Bax, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, and Virgil Thomson.

Emerson has performed several notable rock arrangements of classical compositions, ranging from J. S. Bach via Modest Mussorgsky to 20th century composers such as Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, Leoš Janáček and Alberto Ginastera.

By 1971, with the releases Pictures at an Exhibition and Trilogy, Emerson began to fully credit classical composers, Modest Mussorgsky for the piano piece which inspired the first album, and Aaron Copland for " Hoedown " on the second.

Aaron Copland was said to be somewhat puzzled by Emerson's take on Fanfare For the Common Man, but approved its use.

* " Hoedown ", from Rodeo by Aaron Copland, credited, quoting " Shortenin ' Bread " and " Turkey in the Straw "", both traditional.

* " Fanfare for the Common Man ", by Aaron Copland, credited.

The musical score was by American composer Aaron Copland.

* Our Town ( 1940 film ), adaptation starring Martha Scott as Emily and William Holden as George Gibbs, with a musical score by Aaron Copland.

Already friends with the composer Aaron Copland, Britten encountered his latest works Billy the Kid and An Outdoor Overture, both of which manifestly influenced his own music.

* Academy Award for Original Music Score ( Aaron Copland )

* 1945: Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, ballet

) Soon after the United States entered World War II, Aaron Copland wrote A Lincoln Portrait for the Philharmonic at the request of conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a tribute to and expression of the " magnificent spirit of our country.

In September 1962, the Philharmonic commissioned Aaron Copland to write a new work, Connotations For Orchestra, for the opening concert of the new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

However, after hearing the music for the opening scene, in which a character ( played by Carroll Baker, incidentally also Garfein's wife ) is raped, the director promptly withdrew his commission, opting to enlist Aaron Copland instead.

Other composers such as Béla Bartók, Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and even some jazz composers such as Yusef Lateef and Bill Evans used serialism only for some of their compositions or only for some sections of pieces.

Notable appearances include Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Pierre Boulez, who was festival director in 2003.

He studied music at the Paris Conservatoire from 1943-50 ( ages 11 – 18 ), working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger, who also taught many other composers, including Aaron Copland and Philip Glass, and Ástor Piazzolla.

Legrand has also recorded classical piano pieces by Erik Satie and American composers such as Amy Beach, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, John Cage, and Conlon Nancarrow.

Aaron Copland ( 1900 – 1990 ) conducted the orchestra in 1966.

There were special tributes to two American composers, Charles Ives and Aaron Copland.

De Mille began her association with the fledgling American Ballet Theatre ( then called the Ballet Theatre ) in 1939, but her first significant work, Rodeo ( 1942 ) with the score by Aaron Copland, was staged for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

The most famous hoedown in classical music is the section entitled Hoedown from the Rodeo ballet by Aaron Copland ( 1942 ).

Lincoln Portrait was written by Copland as part of the World War II patriotic war effort in 1942.

Copland finished Lincoln Portrait in April 1942.

In 1942, at the Berkshire Music Center ( Tanglewood ), Massachusetts, he studied composition with Bohuslav Martinů, and contemporary music with Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Stanley Chappel.

** Dennis Russell Davies ( conductor ) & the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for Copland: Appalachian Spring

It was during the autumn of 1930 in Paris that Bowles began work on his own first musical composition, the " Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet ", which he finished the following year and which premiered in New York at the Aeolian Hall on Wigmore St, 16 December 1931, the whole concert ( which also included work by Copland and Virgil Thomson ) was " panned " by New York critics.

His best known works are The hye way to the Spytlell hous, a dialogue in verse between Copland and the porter of St Bartholomew's hospital, containing much information about the vagabonds who found their way there, including Thieves ' Cant ; and Jyl of Breyntford's Testament, dismissed in Athenae Oxonienses ( ed.

On the contrary, Miss Mao and Mr. Fuller chose many of their arrangements from the works of composers such as Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Canteloube, Copland and Britten.

By that point, Apple was deep in their ultimately doomed Copland efforts.

) The main purpose of the acquisition was to use NeXTSTEP as a foundation to replace the dated Mac OS instead of BeOS or the in-development Copland.

The first is a typical classical orchestra ( i. e. Beethoven / Haydn ), the second is typical of an early / mid-romantic ( i. e. Brahms / Dvořák / Tchaikovsky ), late romantic / early 20th century ( i. e. Wagner / Mahler / Stravinsky ), to the common complement of a present day modern orchestras ( i. e. Adams / Barber / Copland / Glass ).

* Mark Stephen Copland, Calculating Lives: The Numbers and Narratives of Forced Removals in Queensland 1859 – 1972 Electronic full-text version of PhD Thesis.

* Clarinet concerto: Aho, Arnold, Copland, Denisov, Dusapin, Fairouz, Françaix, Hétu, Hindemith, Kan-no, Nielsen, Penderecki, Rautavaara, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Tomasi, J. Williams

Given to Graham with the working title " Ballet for Martha ," it was named by her for the scenario she had in mind, though Copland often said he was thinking of neither Appalachia nor Spring while he wrote it.

The Sirens might be called the Muses of the lower world, Walter Copland Perry observed: " Their song, though irresistibly sweet, was no less sad than sweet, and lapped both body and soul in a fatal lethargy, the forerunner of death and corruption.