This season, Crockett will perform in Appalachian Spring, Martha Graham's legendary collaboration with composer Aaron Copland.

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The struggle that ensued would isolate him from composers like Aaron Copland and Roy Harris, whose artful simplicity appealed so directly to audiences in New- Deal America.

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His unfailingly accessible, straightforwardly beautiful music, like that of Aaron Copland, his opposite number in America, is widely if by no means universally thought to be too "easy" to be great.

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Mr Clinton will read from the speeches of his predecessor Abraham Lincoln to orchestra's rendition of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait at a concert on 25 March at Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Tanglewood was founded by Serge Koussevitzky, and Aaron Copland was head of the school for many years, and Leonard Bernstein was not only a student here but a leader here for so many decades.

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"We've always said that if someone is going to do 'Appalachian Spring' in black leather, it should be us, " said Ms. Eilber, referring to Graham's dramatic 1944 work of Americana set to music by Aaron Copland.

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Nurtured in the atmosphere of committed liberalism generated by the New Deal, and by such musicians as Aaron Copland, for whom artistic progress and the formation of an authentically American artistic identity were inseparable from ideas of social change, Bernstein developed quickly into an able spokesman for American cosmopolitan progressivism's short-lived ascendancy.

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