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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Composer of the Week: Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Episode 5: Retirement from composition

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

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Episode 5: Retirement from composition

Retirement from composition

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Retirement from composition

Donald Macleod explores Copland's more radical works of the 1960s.

Donald Macleod explores Copland's last years and his retirement from composition to concentrate on a new endeavour - conducting.

Aaron Copland is the composer who, more than any other, defined the sound of American classical music. Copland's life spanned every decade of the 20th Century, and this week Donald Macleod explores the composer's life and music against the background of the events of that Century. In the final programme of the week, Donald explores Copland's more radical works of the 1960s, his increased interest in conducting which eventually led to a retirement from composition, and his final years which saw him showered with awards from around the world.

Music for a Great City: IV. Towards the Bridge
London Symphony Orchestra
Aaron Copland (conductor)

Connotations
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

Piano Concerto
Earl Wild (piano)
The Symphony of the Air 
Aaron Copland (conductor)

Three Latin-American Sketches: I. Estrobilio
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Aaron Copland (conductor)

At the River 
Marilyn Horne (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Carl Davis (conductor)

Producer: Sam Phillips.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores Copland's life and work through the places he lived and visited

Donald Macleod explores Copland's life and work through the places he lived, visited, and evoked in his music

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