Appalachian Spring

Composer: COPLAND, Aaron
  • Copland wrote his ballet Appalachian Spring in 1943-4.1
  • Appalachian Spring won Copland a Pulitzer Prize in 1945. It also won a New York Music Critics’ Circle Award.2
  • Copland wrote this ballet for modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham.3
  • Appalachian Spring premiered in a performance at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1944.4
  • Synopsis of the ballet from The Kennedy Center

Sources

  1. Howard Pollack, “Copland, Aaron,” Grove Music Online (2013), accessed February 23, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002249091.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Ibid.
  4. “Appalachian Spring, by Aaron Copland,” The Pulitzer Prizes, accessed February 23, 2021, https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/aaron-copland.

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