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Poster: Mel Sanchez <melesan@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Aaron Copland Collection now in American Memory
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Greetings,
An AM Fellow of 1998, I was this morning seeking sound
bites of Copland's El Salon Mexico on the internet but
could not find any. But then I received the emails
from Francis Jacobson Harris and Elizabeth L. Brown on
the new Copland Collection in AM. But ,alas!, I found
no sound bites there of that particular piece. Is it
possible for some to be placed in the collection? I
wish for my students to listen to them in class and
have them some work with them a well as read material
on his development of that compostion.
Greetings to all AM fellows past, present and future
and to all the staff of LOC. If any of you can direct
me to any other place on the internet that might have
that particular recording, it would be enormously
appreciated.
I hold many fond memories of the AM experience.
Mel Sanchez
--- Frances Jacobson Harris <francey@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
wrote:
> Oops, the correct URL is
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html.
>
> cheers! Frances
>
> At 10:37 AM 11/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >This announcement is being sent to a number of
> lists. Please accept our
> >apologies for any duplicate postings.
> >
> >November 14, 2000, marks the one hundredth birthday
> of the American
> >musical icon Aaron Copland. The new online Aaron
> Copland Collection
> ><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/> created by
> the National Digital
> >Library Program in conjunction with the Library’s
> Music Division, forms
> >part of the Library of Congress’s homage to this
> distinguished American.
> >
> >Copland devoted his life as a composer to creating,
> fostering,
> >developing, and establishing a distinctive
> "American" music. He became
> >known as the "Dean of American Music," a sobriquet
> with which he was
> >uncomfortable. His name is synonymous with his
> compositions
> >Appalachian Springwhich won the 1945 Pulitzer
> Prize in Musicand
> >Fanfare for the Common Man.
> >
> >The Aaron Copland Collection Web site includes
> approximately one
> >thousand items selected from Copland's
> correspondence, writings,
> >photographs, and complete sets of music sketches.
> These sketches
> >provide an overview of Copland’s compositional
> process; he used
> >them in composing thirty-one works spanning the
> years 1924 to 1967
> >and covering every medium in which he composed:
> orchestral, ballet,
> >opera, film, chamber, solo-piano, and vocal music.
> >
> >The eight hundred items of correspondence in the
> online collection
> >include Copland’s letters to his parents and other
> family members
> >in the 1920s and ‘30s, to his Parisian teacher
> Nadia Boulanger, to
> >the conductor Serge Koussevitzky, and to other
> notable figures in
> >twentieth-century music such as Nicolas Slonimsky,
> Roger Sessions,
> >Carlos Chávez, Walter Piston, Leonard Bernstein,
> and Benjamin
> >Britten. As an advocate and supporter of American
> music and
> >American composers, Copland frequently wrote
> articles, presented
> >lectures, and delivered speeches, and eighty-six of
> these are presented
> >online as previously unpublished drafts. They
> reveal the creative
> >process through which he wrote about his own music,
> other composers
> >and their music, and other people who played
> important roles in his
> >musical life. More than a hundred photographs are
> also represented
> >in the online collection, many created by Copland’s
> friend Victor Kraft,
> >a professional photographer. They include portraits
> of Aaron Copland
> >at various ages and places, with family members,
> with other composers,
> >and with other people associated with his career as
> a composer and
> >conductor, as well as images from his worldwide
> travels.
> >
> >The Aaron Copland Collection Web site also includes
> the following
> >Special Presentations: a time line of important
> events in Copland’s
> >life, an essay on Copland’s music by Library staff
> member and noted
> >American music scholar Wayne Shirley, and several
> previously
> >published articles on Copland’s life and work. In
> the future, the
> >site will also include the revised finding aid for
> the complete
> >Aaron Copland Collection.
> >
> >Copland extensively documented the many facets of
> his life in music.
> >The archival Aaron Copland Collection, housed in
> the Library’s Music
> >Division, consists of approximately four hundred
> thousand items,
> >dating from 1910 to 1990 with a few
> nineteenth-century photographs,
> >and includes his music manuscripts, printed music,
> personal and
> >business correspondence, diaries and writings,
> photographic materials,
> >awards, honorary degrees, programs, and other
> biographical materials.
> >It is the primary resource for research on Aaron
> Copland and a major
> >resource for the study of musical life in
> twentieth-century America
> >generally, particularly from the 1920s to the
> 1960s.
> >
> >Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov .
=====
Mel Sanchez
Santa Ana High School
520 W. Walnut
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-567-4900
fax 714-567-4952
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