Aaron Copland
출생 : 1900-11-14, Brooklyn, New York
사망 : 1990-12-02
약력
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Composers". The open, slowly changing harmonies in much of his music are typical of what many people consider to be the sound of American music, evoking the vast American landscape and pioneer spirit. He is best known for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a deliberately accessible style often referred to as "populist" and which the composer labeled his "vernacular" style. Works in this vein include the ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid and Rodeo, his Fanfare for the Common Man and Third Symphony. In addition to his ballets and orchestral works, he produced music in many other genres, including chamber music, vocal works, opera and film scores.
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Music
In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied home of the last five decades. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills, and recent interviews, The Opera House looks at an important period of the Met’s history and delves into some of the untold stories of the artists, architects, and politicians who shaped the cultural life of New York City in the ’50s and ’60s. Among the notable figures in the film are famed soprano Leontyne Price, who opened the new Met in 1966 in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra; Rudolf Bing, the Met’s imperious General Manager who engineered the move from the old house to the new one; Robert Moses, the unstoppable city planner who bulldozed an entire neighborhood to make room for Lincoln Center; and Wallace Harrison, whose quest for architectural glory was never fully realized.
A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France. For an incandescent moment from 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, and the Mecca for creative talents who would change the course of art throughout the Western world.
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NBA 진출의 꿈을 안고 있었지만 이루지 못했던 제이크(덴젤 워싱턴 분)는 농구에 뛰어난 자질을 갖춘 아들 지저스를 통해 하류 계층에서 탈피, 신분 상승을 하고자 한다. 지저스는 언제나 자신을 극한으로 밀어붙이는 아버지에게 심한 반발감을 갖는다. 제이크가 말다툼 끝에 실수로 아내를 죽이게 된 후 지저스의 반발감은 극에 달해 증오로 바뀐다. 아내 살해죄로 복역중인 제이크. 그에게는 미국 내 최고 고교 농구선수인 아들 지저스가 있다. 어느 날, 제이크에게 지저스를 주지사의 모교로 진학하게끔 설득해 주면 형기를 감면해 주겠다는 제안이 들어오고, 제이크는 식중독으로 위장해 일주일의 자유시간을 얻는다. 한편 지저스는 학교의 농구 코치, 여동생, 여자 친구, 이모부, 에이전트 사람들의 기대와 유혹 속에 대학이냐 NBA 진출이냐를 놓고 심한 갈등에 빠진다. 지저스를 스카우트하기 위한 온갖 금지된 불법이 행해지고, 증오하던 아버지를 만나게 된 아들은 아버지도 역시 자신을 이용하리라 생각한다. 제이크는 아들에게 한 가지 제안을 하게 되고, 지저스는 새로운 사실들을 하나씩 알게 된다. 수많은 돈과 유혹, 그를 이용하려는 사람들, 진정 그를 위하는 사람은 누구인가? 그가 선택할 수 있는 최선은 무엇인가? 지저스는 이제 1주일 안에 자신의 인생에서 가장 중요한 결정을 내려야 하는데...
Self
Copland himself is the key explicator of his own extraordinary musical career, from piano lessons in Brooklyn and study with Nadia Boulanger, a fling as a wild-eyed modernist, and finally to his preeminence in the American musical world. The program features a wealth of Copland music, including ballet sequences with Agnes de Mille dancing in Rodeo and Martha Graham in Appalachian Spring, scenes of Copland conducting, and interviews with Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem, who said of Copland, "He invented out of whole cloth what it means to be American." Written by Vivian Perlis and produced by Ruth Leon.
Self
Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the musical background which influenced his work. Composers Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter reminisce about Ives and discuss his music.
German-Brazilian production on the life of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Self - Composer and conductor
This concert film made in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles in 1976 captures a memorable performance conducted by the doyen of American composers, Aaron Copland. It includes some of his greatest and most attractive music, from the patriotic flourish of Fanfare for the Common Man and the spirited orchestral fantasy El Salón México, to the colloquial warmth of his suite from the opera The Tender Land. Of particular importance is the collaboration with the great Benny Goodman in the masterwork he commissioned and premiered, the Clarinet Concerto.
Conductor
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
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A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
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A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.
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A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Shoshtakovich, and replete with rapidly mutating geometries, Bute’s filmmaking is at once formally rigorous and energetically high-spirited, like a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies. In the late 1940s, Lewis Jacobs observed that Bute’s films were “composed upon mathematical formulae depicting in ever-changing lights and shadows, growing lines and forms, deepening colors and tones, the tumbling, racing impressions evoked by the musical accompaniment.” Bute herself wrote that she sought to “bring to the eyes a combination of visual forms unfolding along with the thematic development and rhythmic cadences of music.”
Music
Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.
Original Music Composer
1840년대의 뉴욕, 캐서린은 아버지 슬로퍼 박사와 함께 산다. 어머니는 몇 년 전 돌아가셨는데, 아버지는 아직도 그녀를 숭배하고 언제나 딸과 어머니를 비교한다. 잘생겼지만 가난한 모리스가 나타나 캐서린과 사랑하게 되자 슬로퍼 박사는 모리스가 캐서린의 상속권을 노린다고 생각하고 결혼을 반대한다. 슬로퍼 박사는 캐서린을 데리고 유럽으로 떠나지만 캐서린은 모리스를 잊지 못한다. 캐서린이 뉴욕으로 돌아오자 젊은 연인은 도망치려고 하는데...
Self
This video depicts Tanglewood in its very early years. It contains very rare footage of Serge Koussevitzky and Aaron Copland.
Original Music Composer
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.
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A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
Original Music Composer
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
Original Music Composer
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Polemic documentary extolling the virtues of suburban life and leaving cities as a place of industry.
A romantic pair leaves their flat for a desultory burlesque show and two workmen take advantage of the empty house to pilfer a wallet.
