Aaron Copland, `dean of American music NORTH SPORTS FINAL, C Edition

Aaron Copland, the abundantly gifted and successful American composer who used folk songs and jazz in writing plain-spoken classics such as "Appalachian Spring," "Rodeo," "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Billy the Kid," died Sunday, 18 days after his 90th bir...

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Published inChicago tribune (1963)
Main Author Chicago Tribune wires
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, Ill Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 03.12.1990
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Summary:Aaron Copland, the abundantly gifted and successful American composer who used folk songs and jazz in writing plain-spoken classics such as "Appalachian Spring," "Rodeo," "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Billy the Kid," died Sunday, 18 days after his 90th birthday. Admired by colleagues as the "dean of American music," Mr. Copland was a major force in gaining international recognition for the nation's 20th Century composers. His honors included a Pulitzer Prize, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Guggenheim Foundation's first music fellowship and an Oscar. "He was the composer who would lead American music out of the wilderness," the late Leonard Bernstein wrote in High Fidelity magazine for the occasion of Mr. Copland's 70th birthday. "He was The Leader, the one to whom the young always came with their compositions."
ISSN:1085-6706