Elizabeth B Crist: 1 book
Music for the Common Man
Aaron Copland during the Depression and War
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "imposed simplicity." Works like El Salón México, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer unprecedented popular success and came to define...
