Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was one of the most important figures in American music during the second quarter of the 20th century, both as a composer and as a spokesman who was concerned about making Americans conscious of the importance of their...

One of the greatest American composers of the twentieth century, Aaron Copland wrote music for American audiences with genuine American themes. He changed the face of a composer's lifestyle by being involved in activities outside of the concert...

Aaron Copland (November 14 1900 – December 2 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as “the dean of...

AARON COPLAND By Howard Pollack University of Illinois Press ISBN 0-252-- 06900-5 $24.95 The recent dismissal of Aaron Copland as a "composer of folksy American jazz" in Time's Issue 24 of July 2000 might seem an ignorant response to the musician who left...

Aaron Copland embodied in his music the simple, independent spirit and wide-open spaces of America, yet this European-trained Russian Jew from Brooklyn also reflected the divergent impulses of his era. For the first century and a half of its existence, despite its...

Composing can be a lonely job. Hour after hour, the composer sits at a piano, trying to bring out the music in his head.But for Aaron Copland, composition was about the people -- working with people, learning from them, befriending them, organizing and mentoring them.His...

NASA hopes to duplicate the success it had with rewiring the international space station earlier this week so it can continue tackling a problem that has vexed it for days.Spacewalking astronauts rewired half of the orbiting lab Thursday and were set to rewire the other...