AARON COPLAND - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/08/1971 - HFSID 157137
Price: $425.00
AARON COPLAND
The composer sends a letter requesting a meeting
Typed Letter signed: "Aaron Copland", 1p, 5¾x7¾. Peekskill, New York, 1971 December 8.
On personal letterhead to Robert Brawley, Hartford Civic Orchestra, Hartford, Connecticut.
In full: "I will be in New York next week on Wednesday, December 15th. If you are free at 1:30,
I could see you on that day at the Harvard Club. Please let me know by phone whether that time
and day will be convenient for you. ... Yours cordially." Copland (1900-1990) wrote ballets
including Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942), and Appalachian Spring (awarded 1945
Pulitzer Prize in Music) and music for films, the best-known being Of Mice and Men
(1939), Our Town (1940), The Red Pony (1948) and The Heiress (1949). His major
orchestral works include El Salón México (1936) and Fanfare for the Common Man (1943).
Copland was committed to reaching a broad audience with distinctively American themes
without compromising his work. Ink note (unknown hand) and paperclip impression at top.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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