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Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait (1985)

Directed by Alan Miller

Documentary · 58m

Copland himself is the key explicator of his own extraordinary musical career, from piano lessons in Brooklyn and study with Nadia Boulanger, a fling as a wild-eyed modernist, and finally to his preeminence in the American musical world. The program features a wealth of Copland music, including ballet sequences with Agnes de Mille dancing in Rodeo and Martha Graham in Appalachian Spring, scenes of Copland conducting, and interviews with Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem, who said of Copland, "He invented out of whole cloth what it means to be American." Written by Vivian Perlis and produced by Ruth Leon.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Alan Miller
Producer
Ruth Leon

Details

Release date
1985-01-01
Runtime
58m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Countries
United States of America
Production
THIRTEEN, The WNET Group