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Copland

[ kohp-luhnd ]

noun

  1. Aaron, 1900–90, U.S. composer.


Copland

/ ˈkəʊplənd /

noun

  1. CoplandAaron19001990MUSMUSIC: composer Aaron. 1900–90, US composer of orchestral and chamber music, ballets, and film music


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No speechy-sounding policy-paper words that bring Copland music to mind.

What did he write to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to Boris Pasternak, to Stephen Sondheim, to Aaron Copland?

For that matter, Aaron Copland is the only classical composer on the list.

By those standards, Franz Kafka is an unscrupulous plagiarist as is Aaron Copland and every jazz great.

The three Marks of Copland make allusion to the roses which appeared as a sign to his shop.

"imprinted by Wyllyam Copland," without date; containing great variations.

Copland reprinted the work in 1557, and in 1634 the last of the black-letter editions appeared.

It is said that this Copland gave the great bell, which made the fifth in the ring, to be rung nightly at nine of the clock.

Mrs. Copland had to tell him the story, for Phœbe was so drowned in tears that she could not speak a word.

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