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Canticle of Freedom
Form: Chorus and orchestra
Date: 1955
Text: John Barbour, modernized by Willis Wager
First performance: 8 May 1955. Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chorus and Orchestra, cond. Klaus Liepmann
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Date of publication: 1968
Timing: 13'
Notes: Revised in 1967. The opening is based on the opening of the unfinished Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Chávez had set this text, which Copland probably found for him in Louis Untermeyer’s anthology Treasury of Great Poems, English and American, in 1942
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Ceremonial Fanfare
Form: Brass
Date: 1969
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Date of publication: 1974
Timing: 3'
Notes: for 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba. “Commissioned by the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art in Celebration of its Centennial Year – 1969"
Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra
Date: 1947-1949
First performance: 6 November 1950. New York. NBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Fritz Reiner; Benny Goodman, clarinet
Timing: 17'
Dedication: “for Benny Goodman”
Contents: I. Slowly and expressively II. Rather fast
Notes: Choreographed in 1951 by Jerome Robbins as Pied Piper
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Date: 1926
First performance: 28 January 1927. Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Serge Koussevitzky. Aaron Copland, piano
Publisher: Cos Cob Press
Date of publication: 1929
Timing: 18'
Dedication: “to Alma Wertheim.”
Contents: I. Andante sostenuto II. Molto moderato / Allegro assai
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Connotations
Form: Orchestra
Date: 1961-1962
First performance: 23 September 1962. New York. New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Date of publication: 1963
Timing: 20'
Dedication: “Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic in celebration of its opening season in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and dedicated to the members of the orchestra and its music director Leonard Bernstein”
Notes: The first performance took place at the opening concert of the Lincoln Center
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Cortege Macabre
Form: Orchestra
Date: 1923
First performance: 1 May, 1925, N.Y.: Rochester Philharmonic, Howard Hanson, conductor
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Date of publication: 1978
Timing: 8'
Dedication: Harold Clurman
Notes: an excerpt from Grohg
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