The Composer’s Voice: Aaron Copland

Listen to Aaron Copland talk about his life and music. In interviews with Vivian Perlis between 1975 and 1978, Copland discussed Nadia Boulanger, jazz , Koussevitzsky, Stravinsky, twelve-tone methods, film music, Martha Graham, and artistic inspiration. This netcast interweaves excerpts from these conversations with short musical excerpts. Perlis is the founder of the Oral History of American Music project at Yale.

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