American Music

[...] Perhaps no other composer embodies the spirit of American optimism and strength more than Aaron Copland (1900-1990). His music is forever associated in the popular imagination with feelings of [...]

[...] Harold Shapero (1920-2013) was an American composer, pianist, and educator of the 20th Century. [...]

[...] was born in Brooklyn, the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. He studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the early 1920’s. Works from this period include the The Cat and the Mouse:  [...]

[...] musical vocabulary with musical forms of the 18th Century. His teachers included Nadia Boulanger, Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith. His Nine-Minute Overture earned him the Rome Prize [...]

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[...] The American Piano, a new album featuring music of Harold Shapero and other great American composers of the 20th Century. [...]

[...] each work bears his stamp, yet each is special unto itself.” <== Click to pre-order The American Piano, a new album featuring music of Copland and other great American composers of the 20th [...]

[...] The American Piano, a new album featuring music of Harold Shapero and other great American composers of the 20th [...]

[...] the two formed a piano duo, performing concerts together for a year. In an interview, Shapero recalls: “We used to do terrible hi-jinks and stuff on the audience…We told them we were going [...]

[...] one of his first great “hits,” El Salón México, in Mexico, where he was a guest of composer Carlos Chavez. Of the work, Copland wrote: “I was attracted by the spirit of the place and by the [...]

[...] , Clarinet Concerto (composed for Benny Goodman), Lincoln Portrait, and his iconic ballet Appalachian Spring. This latter work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and remains a staple [...]