Events range from orchestral concerts and chamber music to ballet, film screenings and exhibitions.

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Since leaving his post as artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre in 1989 he has distinguished himself in dozens of creative projects and film and TV work (the most notable for casual fans: Sex And The City).

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He did eventually settle down in 2011, at the age of 75, when he married Geraldine Lynton-Edwards - who he met in 1957 when he was a 21-year-old film-maker and she was a 16-year-old actress and ballet dancer.

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Since then, Copeland has done it all, composing for the opera, ballet, and symphony, crossing back over into rock, experimenting with music from other cultures, and composing for film and television.

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