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Interview with Aaron Copland

Title
Interview with Aaron Copland [sound recording].
Author
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
Publication
1975.

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Additional Authors
Gruen, John.
Description
1 sound disc (ca. 70 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Against the aural background of a recording of Aaron Copland's work Dance panels, John Gruen speaks about this work and the eponymous ballet as well as Copland's personal background and works for dance [short gap following which the interview proper begins, at ca. 1:30 min. into track 2]; Copland speaks with Gruen about his career as a composer of music for dance, including how he became first became interested in composing for ballet while living in Paris; his never-produced composition for ballet titled Grohg; his impressions of the Ballets russes and of the Ballets suédois; his composition for Ruth Page's ballet Hear ye! Hear ye!; his music for Eugene Loring's work Billy the Kid; his music for Agnes de Mille's ballet Rodeo; his approach when writing music for dance; Martha Graham and collaborating with her on Appalachian spring; Graham's distinctly American character and how this is reflected in her work; briefly, Antony Tudor's work Timetable, which uses Copland's composition Music for the theatre; his Latin-inspired works including El salón México [used by Doris Humphrey in her eponymous work] and the source of its title; Danzón cubano [used by Eliot Feld in his eponymous work]; his Latin-American sketches; briefly, Copland's Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra and Jerome Robbins' work The pied piper; his admiration for Robbins' work; Copland's work Dance panels; writing music for dance; conducting music for dance; his own conducting; more on writing music for dance including the kinds of limitations sometimes imposed and an anecdote about his composition Appalachian spring. [Interview ends at the end of track 12; tracks 13-16 of the recording repeat, with gaps and much poorer sound quality, prior parts of the recording, from ca. 3:00 into track 9 - track 12].
Alternative Title
Dance Oral History Project.
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Aaron Copland conducted by John Gruen in New York City on July 9, 1975, in connection with the New York Public Library's Oral History Project.
  • Sound quality is fair. The voices are easily intelligible, but there is some distortion in the recording including a low level of tape hiss as well as occasional short gaps and extraneous noises. The last ca. 12 min. of the recording repeats the final section of the interview but has gaps and is of poorer sound quality.
Funding (note)
  • The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-329
OCLC
811028129
Author
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Aaron Copland [sound recording].
Imprint
1975.
Original Version
Original format : 1 sound reel (ca. 70 min.; 5"; 1 channel; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; half-track). Originally recorded in 1975.
Funding
The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Local Note
Former call no.: *MGZT 5-329
For a transcript of this recording see: *MGZMT 5-329
Archive original: *MGZTO 5-329
Added Author
Gruen, John. Interviewee
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-329
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