In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

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It's a puzzle, but it has for its delight a kind of solitary quality, both of the composer and of the solver of the chess problem.

它是一个谜语，却具有某种令人愉快的自我的特性，不论是设题的人还是解题的人都能感知到。

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A motive is just a little cell, a germ, out of which the composer will build other musical material.

动机只是个微小的细胞,一个胚芽,基于它 作曲家会创造新的音乐素材

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He is a drummer, a composer, and a 2008 recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award.

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She said such an approach is rare because most concert programmes are put together around one composer's work, or their relevance to another composer.

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At age 12 he met French composer Olivier Messiaen, and later he championed the composer's music and studied with his wife, Yvonne Loriod, at the Paris Conservatoire.

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