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From "Dance Panels" to "Duo for Flute and Piano" (6 works)
- Dance Panels
- Form: Ballet
- Date: 1959
- First performance: 3 December 1963. Munich. Choreography: Heinz Rosen
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1965
- Timing: 26'
- Contents: I. Moderato (Tempo di valzer) II. Allegretto con tenerezza III. Scherzando IV. Pas de trois: Lento V. Con brio VI. Con moto VII. Molto ritmico
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- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, April 30, 1963.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, November 7, 1963.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, December 10, 1963.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 5, 1936.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, May 18, 1937.
- Dance Symphony
- Date: 1925
- First performance: 15 April 1931. Philadelphia. Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, cond.
- Publisher: Cos Cob Press
- Date of publication: 1931
- Timing: 18'
- Dedication: "to Harold Clurman"
- Contents: Introduction: Lento I. Subito doppio movimento; Molto allegro II. Andante Moderato III. Allegro vivo
- Notes: excerpts from Grohg. This is not one of the three numbered symphonies.
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- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 12, 1925.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, December 4, 1925.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 30, 1927.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, August 15, 1930.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky, 1931.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky, September 5, 1932.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Oliver Strunk, March 21, 1937.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, July 4, 1924.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, January 25, 1925.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, April 3, 1925.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 6, 1925.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, March 31, 1961.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, December 18, 1962.
- Danzón Cubano
- Form: Two pianos; arranged for orchestra
- Date: 1942
- First performance: 17 December 1942. New York. Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, pianos.; (orchestral version): 17 February 1946. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, cond. Reginald Stewart
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1943
- Timing: 6'
- Dedication: "to Rudy" [Burckhardt] (No dedication in orchestra score)
- Notes: "Composed especially for the twentieth anniversary of the League of Composers."
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- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, March 8, 1946.
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- Letter from Aaron Copland to William Strickland, September 26, 1944.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, April 14, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, April 29, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, June 12, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, February 7, 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, April 5, 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Olga Naumoff, June 16, 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, September 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 27, 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, April 6, 1947.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, September 27, 1947.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, March 11, 1949.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, November 13, 1950.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, December 6, 1957.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nicolas Slonimsky, August 12, 1960.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, January 15, 1964.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, November 14, 1944.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, May 7, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, September 5, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, December 5, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, January 23, 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, November 18, 1946.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, June 14, 1947.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, November 19, 1947.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, November 21, 1948.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, June 6, 1949.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, February 4, 1953.
- Dirge in Woods
- Form: Song for voice and piano
- Date: 1954
- Text: George Meredith
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1957
- Timing: 3'
- Dedication: "Written especially in honor of Nadia Boulanger's fiftieth year of teaching."
- Notes: Boulanger had asked Copland to write two songs for her. He could finish only one
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- Down a Country Lane
- Form: Piano
- Date: 1962
- Publisher: Life magazine
- Publisher: Life magazine
- Date of publication: 1962
- Timing: 3'
- Notes: arranged for school orchestra by the composer, 1965
- Duo for Flute and Piano
- Date: 1970-1971
- First performance: 3 October 1971. Philadelphia. Elaine Shaffer, flute; Hepzibah Menuhin, piano
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1971
- Timing: 14'
- Dedication: "to the memory of William Kincaid"
- Contents: I. Flowing II. Poetic, somewhat mournful III. Lively, with bounce
- Notes: based on material sketched during the 1940s. Second movement published separately as "Poem" in 1977
- Related digital items:
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, November 25, 1976.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis and Annette Kaufman, December 28, 1977.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his parents, July 11, 1921.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his parents, September 14, 1921.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his family, September 19, 1921.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his parents, October 3, 1921.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his family, November 9, 1921.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his parents, November 28, 1921.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his family, December 4, 1921.