Commissioned of Copland in 1942 by the famous American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, the grande dame of Modern Dance, and by the Coolidge Foundation, the ballet music that Copland originally conceived of was titled вЂњBallet for MarthaвЂќ and he said that вЂњthe music вЂ¦ takes as a point of departure the personality of Martha Graham.вЂќ And it was only just before the balletвЂ™s premiere in 1944 when Graham herself happened across the lovely phrase that became its title, вЂњAppalachian spring,вЂќ finding it in a poem by Hart Crane called The Bridge, where the вЂњspringвЂќ referred to a water source, not the season. The balletвЂ™s underlying story is also equally well known: that of a newlywed pioneer family вЂњbuilding a house with joy and love and prayer.вЂќ Interestingly, both Appalachia and this story werenвЂ™t applied until much later in its creation. Appalachian Spring / Billy The Kid (LP, Album, RE) Columbia Masterworks.For many, Appalachian Spring has come to represent the вЂњsound of AppalachiaвЂќ вЂ“ that ancient chain of low mountains marching up the eastern seaboard, with their dense wilderness, granting views that gently span the horizon through a myriad of brilliant autumnal colors and misty pastels and filled with the folk music of song and fiddles almost as ancient as the mountains. Aaron Copland, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy -. Aaron Copland, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy. Conductor Artur Rodzinski commissioned Copland to write an orchestral suite from the ballet score.1956.

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