Aaron Copland Documentary: Portrait of the Composer Legend | Feat. Hugh Wolff & Stella Doufexis

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is considered one of the most famous US-American composers - with a true cult status. He is best known for his "Fanfare for the Common Man" (which can be heard at various sports events, and inspired music in films such as "Superman", "Saving Private Ryan" or "The Patriot"), as well as "Appalachian Spring", "Billy the Kid", "Rodeo" and several film scores ("Of Mice and Men"). Most importantly, Copland's music represents Americanness and the musical reflection on modern US-American culture and history, within a broad pop cultural context. This documentary featuring conductor Hugh Wolff takes a look at Copland's music, life, and political struggles. It also includes performances of his work by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
and Stella Doufexis.
Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Fanfare for the Common Man
▷ 03:24 - "Hoe Down" from Rodeo
▷ 07:32 - Childhood & Beginnings in Music: New York, Europe, Nadia Boulanger, Stravinsky
▷ 12:32 - Symphony No. 3
▷ 17:00 - Creating the American Sound: Revolutionary Music
▷ 26:18 - Appalachian Spring: Gaining Fame
▷ 35.21 - Copland's Beliefs and Politics: A Composer vs. McCarthyism
▷ 36:32 - 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson - "Going to Heaven"
▷ 40:55 - El Salón México
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Aaron Copland is best known for the hugely popular compositions he wrote 1936-49, such as "Appalachian Spring", "Billy the Kid" and "Rodeo". He is also a highly respected film composer ("Of Mice and Men" (1939), "The Red Pony" (1949)). Mostly, however, Copland was one of the first to capture the essence of American life in sound. Together with Gershwin, Ives, and Bernstein, he created music that mirrored the world in which he lived. This documentary looks at how a sassy New Yorker of Russian-Jewish background came to write infectious and accessible music that established a distinctive American idiom. At the same time, it explains the context of his work and dives into his life, including the McCarthy era of the 1950s, when the composer found himself on Hollywood's notorious black list.
Extracts from an interview with Copland are included and his biographer, Howard Pollack, and American conductor Hugh Wolff, a leading exponent of his music, both contribute to the program. Wolff also conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in passages from some of the composer’s most famous works, including "Fanfare for the Common Man", "Symphony No. 3", "Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson" (with mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis), "El salón Mexico" and music for the feature film "Our Town".
Original title: Fanfare for America - Aaron Copland
Directed by Andreas Skipis
© 2001, Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution
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[@gerthenriksen8818]

Great, deserves at lot more views! The world would not be the same without Copland's music.

[@MacLeanLauri]

Excellent. Very much enjoyed his music being interspersed with the storyline. Wonderful presentation.