Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait Movie Review 1989

Composer Aaron Copland discusses his musical career starting with piano lessons in Brooklyn, New York and studying with Nadia Boulanger. The program features ballet sequences with Agnes de Mille daning in "Rodeo" and Martha Graham in "Appalachian Spring," scenes of Copland conducting, and interviews with Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem.

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Available on VHS
Running time 58 minutes.

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Biography

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Films for the Humanities and Sciences