Word: appalachian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardest to understand," he says; "it depends on who I'm writing for." He has written for many people, having composed music for the radio, schools, the theatre, and motion pictures, as well as for the more restricted audience of the concert hall. The Pulitzer Prize winning "Appalachian Spring," written in 1944 for Martha Graham, was in line with his theory of "music...
...first won recognition in the 20's for his modern music which emphasized dissonances and jazz rhythms. Copland was the first American composer to win a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1945 he got a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Springs" and last year an Academy Award for his score for "The Heiress...
...southward from the Arctic over Labrader down to Maine in the wake of last Monday's storm, forming a high pressure zone in the northeastern U.S. At the same time, a second cold air mass flowed down from north central Canada to form a cold front extending along the Appalachian Mountains down to Georgia...
Copland was the first U.S. composer to win a commission (for his Music for the Theater) from the newly formed League of Composers, the first to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. He has also collected a Pulitzer Prize, in 1945, for Appalachian Spring, and a Hollywood "Oscar" this year, for his score for The Heiress...
Joseph Dodge of the Pinkham Notch Appalachian Mountain Club directed the rescue...