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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
- Related digital items:
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, December 6, 1948.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, August 29, 1950.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to William Strickland, May 20, 1951.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, June 3, 1951.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, September 30, 1948.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, November 7, 1963.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, August 26, 1948.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, November 25, 1976.
- Clarinet
concerto [sketches]
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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
- Related digital items:
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Roger Sessions, March 18, 1927.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, October 16, 1927.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Roger Sessions, March 1928.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, June 1, 1928.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky, July 2, 1928.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, July 18, 1928.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky, September 3,
1928.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, September 7, 1928.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, October 31, 1928.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, January 17, 1929.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, November 21, 1929.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky, July 9, 1936.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, July 15, 1936.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, July 1, 1936.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, August 1936.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, January 15, 1964.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nicolas Slonimsky, undated.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, May 21, 1951.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Mary Lescaze, July 9, 1936.
- Concerto
for piano and orchestra [sketch-score]
- Concerto
for piano and orchestra [sketches]
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, November 28, 1940.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nicolas Slonimsky, August 12, 1960.
- 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
- Related digital items:
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, July 4, 1924.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, August 26, 1924.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, April 3, 1925.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, October 16, 1927.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, April 3, 1925.
- Letter
from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 6, 1925.
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