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  Aaron Copland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
Copland was an important contributor to the genre of film music.
Having defended the Communist Party USA during the 1936 presidential election, Copland was investigated by the FBI during the red scare of the 1950s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aaron_Copland   (939 words)

  
 Copland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Copland was to run the Mac OS on top of a microkernel named Nukernel, which would basic tasks such as application startup and memory management, leaving all other tasks to a series of semi-special programs known as servers.
Copland therefore was to use a fiendishly complex memory management system and rely extensively upon shared libraries, with the goal being for Copland to be only some 50% larger than 7.5.
Notably, Copland did not directly support multithreading in the original Mac OS libraries, although programs could be written that directly interacted with the kernel to get these services (the servers made use of this, for instance).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copland   (2513 words)

  
 Aaron Copland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
El salon mexico is a symphonic composition by aaron copland, in which he uses mexican folk music as his theme....
Aaron copland (born aaron cohen) (november 14, 1900 - december 2, 1990) was an american composer of modern tonal music as well as film music....
Appalachian spring is a musical work by aaron copland writteen between 1943-44 as a ballet suite and a later orchestral suite....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/aa/aaron_copland.htm   (2088 words)

  
 SPECTRUM Biographies - Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland, one of America's greatest composers, was the fifth child born into a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1920, Copland was granted a scholarship, and in the summer of 1921, he traveled to the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau.
Copland made another abrupt style change in the mid-1930s with a move towards simplicity and melody, in an effort to be more accessible to the general public.
www.incwell.com /Biographies/Copland.html   (637 words)

  
 MacKiDo/Myths/Copland
Copland as a monolithic project has died, but Copland as far as a collection of technologies, designs and source code is certainly not dead.
Copland was a transitional OS meant to add new technologies (while keeping compatibility with System 7) on the way to the fully protected, preemptive, multiprocessing OS called Gershwin.
Copland had changed so much that it was not going to be recognizable as the original, and many parts of Copland had been taken out and already shipped.
www.mackido.com /Myths/Copland.html   (1072 words)

  
 American Masters . Aaron Copland | PBS
Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1900.
By the mid-'30s Copland had become not only one of the most popular composers in the country, but a leader of the community of American classical musicians.
Copland believed that through this music, he could find his way to a more popular symphonic music.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/copland_a.html   (883 words)

  
 June 95 - Copland: The Mac OS Moves Into the Future   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Enter Copland, a new generation of the Mac OS to be released by Apple in mid-1996.
In Copland, if they need to open additional applications, they can do so without going through any rigmarole; space will be created on the fly to support their needs, provided that sufficient disk space is available for use as a backing store.
Because Copland will make available a full gigabyte of address space in which to run applications (subject, of course, to the limits imposed by the amount of disk space available for paging), two other limitations of the System 7 memory allocation system should be alleviated.
www.mactech.com /articles/develop/issue_22/copland.html   (5141 words)

  
 Essentials of Music - Composers
Aaron Copland seems at first to be an odd person to create a musical style that combined the myths of the American West and the styles of Latin American music into a populist music that spoke to a large segment of American society.
Copland was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, grew up in New York, and found his musical voice in the international, avant-garde atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s.
But at age twenty, Copland left New York to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, who was to serve as a teacher and mentor to many of the leading composers of the century.
www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/copland.html   (763 words)

  
 Featured Subject: Aaron Copland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Copland, who was reunited with Martha Graham for a performance of "Appalachian Spring," which she commissioned in 1944, recalls for Anna Kisselgoff the circumstances of its composition.
Copland writes enthusiastically about a cultural exchange he took part in, organized by the State Department, in which he visited provincial capitals in Latin America to talk with local musicians.
Copland argues that symphony orchestras, striving to attract an audience, are relying too much on standard repertory and not doing enough to promote a new generation of composers.
www.dl.ket.org /humanities/music/copland.htm   (1555 words)

  
 Classical Net Review - Copland & Harris - Fanfare for the Common Man, etc.
Copland's was the longest and most elaborate work in the series and the only one to have survived its premiere.
Copland settled on the compromise of a speaker declaiming Lincoln over a musical background (a genre known as melodrama), which, by the way, almost never works.
Copland's own reading, less precisely articulated than Schwarz's, still aces out the rest of the competition, simply because he recognizes the piece is fun, damnit.
www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/d/del03140a.html   (2632 words)

  
 Aaron Copland | American Composer
Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900 in New York City.
Copland's growth as a composer mirrored important trends of his time.
Copland's suggestions for listening to music intelligently will bring you a deeper appreciation of the most rewarding of all art forms.
www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/library/95nov/copland.html   (540 words)

  
 Marc Copland Trio | Haunted Heart & Other Ballads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
So today Copland is widely respected amongst those in-the-know on the jazz scene as a quiet giant of “his” instrument; there is nothing outwardly revolutionary about his playing but his sheer refinement and understated excellence is a revelation in- itself.
We can hear Marc Copland and his trio express their muse amply here on this first record for Hatology records, “Haunted Heart and Other Ballads.” This is a ballad record that is dedicated to exploring ballads in all of their nuance and complexity.
Copland reveals his philosophy on this recording in his liner notes, when he writes “Playing ballads, is in many ways, the ultimate musical challenge.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=8742   (945 words)

  
 Welcome to the Website of Copland House: The House
While Copland House was never intended to be a museum, reminders of Copland’s presence are to be found throughout.
Photos of Copland and his friends and colleagues, books and magazines (musical and literary) that he loved to read, and various other memorabilia are to be found at the house.
One may enjoy what is left of Copland’s beloved view of the Hudson River through now-mature trees while sitting on a Harvard chair, a memento of his occasional activities at that institution.
www.coplandhouse.org /info.asp?pk=255   (509 words)

  
 The Aaron Copland Centennial | Program Notes
Copland's Four Motets (1921) were his first compositions for chorus, and the first compositions he wrote for the late Nadia Boulanger, the now-famous French pedagogue.
Copland presents a series of variations on this Shaker tune at the climax of the ballet.
Copland was a city boy, born and raised in Brooklyn.
www.npr.org /programs/specials/copland/notes.html   (4390 words)

  
 MPR: Conscience vs. McCarthy: the political Aaron Copland
COPLAND: I certainly think it would be sufficient if he were using his Communist membership to angle his teaching to further the purposes of the Communist Party.
Copland's skillful parrying of McCarthy and Co.'s attempts to skewer him was all the more impressive because, by the standards of the Senate committee, he had a great deal to evade.
Copland wrote of the farmers in Lavinia, Minnesota, "It's one thing to think revolution, or talk about it to one's friends, but to preach it in the streets—OUT LOUD—I'll probably never be the same.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/05/03_morelockb_unamerican   (1492 words)

  
 Aaron Copland
Copland was also among the founders of the Yaddo Festivals, the Arrow Music Press and the American Composers Alliance.
Copland taught for Piston when he was on leave from Harvard, and returned to that institution in 1951 as the first American composer to hold the Norton Professor of Poetics.
Copland showed the first signs of Alzheimer's disease in the early 1970s and from that point on virtually stopped composing, although he continued to conduct until he was 83 years old.
www.balletmet.org /Notes/Copland.html   (938 words)

  
 Aaron Copland at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 - December 2, 1990) was born in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1953, his music was pulled from President Eisenhower's inaugural concert due to this; that same year Copland testified before Congress that he was never a Communist.
Copland's membership in the party was never proven nor disproven.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Aaron_Copland.html   (351 words)

  
 Classical Collection ~ R A CAMPBELL Home Page
Copland stopped composing in the last decade of his life which ended in December, 1990 a month after his 90th birthday.
The work was reset by Copland in 1940 in his edition specifically for English Horn, Trumpet and chamber ensemble.
Copland made an orchestral suite which was FP by the Chicago SO under Fritz Reiner in April of 1958.
www.angelfire.com /biz/musiclassical/copland.html   (626 words)

  
 SoundStage! Celluloid Copland
There is another side to Aaron Copland, however, that many of us may have never heard, a side that offers a new perspective on Copland’s talent.
Copland was never one to restrict himself -- if he was commissioned (or just plain asked) to write music for someone or some event, he usually did.
This is a diverse group of films, yet Copland managed to write scores for all of them that are musically distinct yet still possess his sonic signature.
www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev326.htm   (684 words)

  
 Copland, Aaron. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Brooklyn, N.Y. Copland was a pupil of Rubin Goldmark and of Nadia Boulanger, who introduced his work to the United States when she conducted his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra in 1925.
Although his earliest works show European influences, the American character of the greater part of his compositions is evident in his use of jazz and of American folk tunes, as in the short piece for chamber orchestra, John Henry (1940).
Copland wrote a song cycle, 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson, and a quartet for piano and strings (both 1950), Canticle of Freedom for chorus and orchestra (1955), and a tone poem Inscape (1967).
www.bartleby.com /65/co/Copland.html   (274 words)

  
 CNN - Music returns to Aaron Copland's home - December 24, 1998
CORTLANDT, New York (CNN) -- The rustic house overlooking the Hudson River where Aaron Copland, one of America's most famous composers, spent the final 30 years of his life is being used to inspire future generations of musicians.
Copland, who died in 1990, gave the name Rock Hill to the spacious 1940s era home north of New York City.
Under a leasing arrangement involving the estate, the town of Cortlandt and the nonprofit Copland Heritage Association, Rock Hill is now a retreat where musicians can live and work in the ruggedly elegant house and its scenic 2.5-acre setting.
www.cnn.com /US/9812/24/copland.house   (239 words)

  
 Copland Manual :: Chapter 1: Introduction
Copland is named after the American composer Aaron Copland for a reason.
Copland is based heavily on the HiveMind IoC container for Java.
Versions of Copland prior to 0.6 were released under the same license as Ruby.
copland.rubyforge.org /chapter-1.html#s1   (1732 words)

  
 Pro Arte: Copland; Appalachian Spring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Copland accomplished the change of viewpoint with notable success, simplifying his style, yet never ceasing to be individual.
Copland called the work simply "Ballet for Martha." It was Graham who suggested the title from a phrase she had found in a poem by Hart Crane (though it had nothing to do with the scenario of the ballet).
All of Copland's three major ballet scores make use of old folk melodies, but Appalachian Spring uses the least; the only tune to pre-date the composition is the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts," which serves as the basis of a series of variations near the end of the ballet.
www.proarte.org /notes/copland.htm   (515 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Aaron Copland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Of Russian Jewish descent (his father's surname was "Kaplan" before he anglicized it to "Copland" while in England, before emigrating to the United States), he spent his childhood living above his parents' Brooklyn shop.
Although his parents never encouraged or directly exposed him to music, at age fifteen he had already taken an interest in the subject and aspired to be a composer.
Copland was a friend of Leonard Bernstein and a major influence on his composing style.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Aaron_Copland   (635 words)

  
 ISAM Newsletter: Visualizing Modernity and Tradition in Copland's America
Copland’s interests in visual arts were not confined to cubism, but included the folk expressions of the common man that he and many artists who were his contemporaries came to champion.
Copland is most original, yet also most American, when he weaves into a distinctive modernist fabric the strains of folk and popular art, amalgamated and transformed into a renewed classical matrix.
Copland also drew upon the folk culture of the Shakers, adopting a motif from their hymn “Simple Gifts” for his Appalachian Spring ballet score, which he composed in 1944 at the request of Martha Graham.
depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /isam/levin00.html   (1754 words)

  
 Copland, Aaron (1900 - 1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The son of immigrant Jewish parents from Poland and Lithuania, Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn in 1900 and lived to become the doyen of all American composers.
Copland's three ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring are quintessentially American, the first two dealing with familiar elements of the Wild West and the third turning to Shaker country in the farm-lands of Appalachia.
Unquestionably the best known of all Copland's orchestral works must be Fanfare for the Common Man, followed by An Outdoor Overture and El salón Mexico and Quiet City, the last originally incidental music for a play by Irving Shaw.
www.naxos.com /composer/copland.htm   (166 words)

  
 Review: Copland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The relationship between these two is one of Copland's most fascinating elements, but it lacks any kind of resolution, and that represents one of several frustrating aspects of the film's ending.
Copland opens with a dynamic sequence that includes a wildly unpredictable car chase that ends with a young cop (Michael Rapaport) killing two men, then apparently jumping to his death from the George Washington Bridge.
The interaction between individual characters is often highly enjoyable, but, when you try to take in the entire story, implausibilites leap to the surface (not the least of which is how easily a high-profile individual can be presumed dead with the media swarming around and everyone in one town knowing that he's still alive).
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/copland.html   (856 words)

  
 SoundStage! Equipment Review - Copland CDA 288 CD Player (07/1998)
Copland is not exactly a household name in North American audio circles, but this joint Danish-Swedish endeavor has built a very strong name for itself around the world with its outstanding tube preamplifiers and power amps.
Copland is based in Copenhagen, where founder Olé Möller and head designer Morten Simonsen run the research and development division of the business.
Copland only recently entered the digital arena, and it was one of the first European manufacturers to offer an HDCD-compatible CD player.
www.soundstage.com /revequip/ian01.htm   (2291 words)

  
 IHAS: Composer
Yet, in many ways, Aaron Copland, together with his contemporary Leonard Bernstein, exerted such profoundly shaping influences on American music that they became institutions in their own right.
But perhaps the most significant institutional involvement which began for Copland in 1940 was his association with the Berkshire Music Center and the Tanglewood Festival, where he would teach and work for several decades to come.
While composing the Dickinson cycle, Copland had worked concurrently on his two sets of OLD AMERICAN SONGS, arrangements of folk tunes that became so popular in their piano and orchestral versions as to eclipse the original melodies on which they were based.
www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/composer/copland.html   (842 words)

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