Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 4, 1930
[Yaddo stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, September 27, 1947.
[Instituto Brasil -- Estados Unidos (Rio de Janeiro) stationery]
Special Fondness for B.B. [Benjamin Britten]
Picryl description: Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Letter from Aaron Copland to Mary Lescaze, 1954.
[Shady Lane Farm stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, December 17, 1936.
[Hotel Empire [N.Y.] stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, March 4, 1938.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1939
excerpt: "...you arouse a long dead messianic complex in me. Do you mind being saved?...I see the beginning and end of the first movement but not the middle." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky, January 1...
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1940
excerpt: "Marc Blitzstein reports it was `easily the best thing on the program'." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1942
excerpt: "I'm writing a ballet -- very frothy one -- for the Monte Carlo people." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Harold Spivacke, January 31, 1944.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
"Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, October 9, 1944"
excerpt: "Martha Graham is supposedly doing a ballet of mine that week-end! No one has seen any public announcement of the event I go by on faith."
Letter from Aaron Copland to Olga Naoumoff, February 26, 1944.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, November 17, 1944.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, November 12, 1945.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, September 18, 1949.
[River Road stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d.
excerpt: "Chavez played the Sinfonia Corta and I was impressed." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, April 9, 1947
excerpt: "...good luck with symphony...Marc's situation hopeless...love to Nadia." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "...terribly sorry not to have heard the `Songfest' as planned." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, September 20, 1939
excerpt: "I'm off to Saratoga Springs to see Koussie." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Olga Koussevitzky, August 4, 1966.
[R.F.D.1 Peekskill stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, August 2, 1967
excerpt: "Just finished the new piece for the 125th...I'm calling it 'Inscape'...I can't wait to hear you do it..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, April 4, 1968
[R.F.D.1 Peekskill stationery]
Irving Fine (1914-1962) - Public domain document scan
Picryl description: Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Letter from Aaron Copland to Nicolas Slonimsky, undated
[probably 1927/01/16]
Composing for Something Wild - Public domain document scan
unpublished article
Letter from Aaron Copland to Mary Lescaze, March 1935
[Harvard University / Division of Music stationery]
The Teacher: Nadia Boulanger - Public domain document scan
Picryl description: Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, January 23, 1950
[River Road stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, August 10, 1957
[Berkshire Music Center stationery]
"Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, March 1"
excerpt: "Somehow it's difficult for me to take your today's letter seriously (the one about your feeling for V.) That is, I know you mean every word of it, but knowing the two of you so well, I still can't tak... More
"Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d."
excerpt: "What terrifying letters you write! Fit for the flames is what they are. Just imagine how much you would have to pay to retrieve such a letters forty years from now when you are conductor of the Philharmonic."
Letter from Aaron Copland to his parents, April 7, 1922
[Hotel Lugano Pension Fleurie (Rome) stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Mrs. Parker, May 2, 1957
[Shady Lane Farm stationery]
The Composer as Conductor - Public domain document scan
Picryl description: Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Letter from Aaron Copland to William Lescaze, September 27, 1935
[image: Hotel Lafayette]
Shirley Bernstein to Leonard Bernstein, October 20, 1940
excerpt: "Everyone is gradually recovering from our week of catastrophes I'm educating the school au sujet de Aaron Copland all the kids are pretty up on modern music Last Wednesday was hazing day. My freshmen ... More
Letter from Aaron Copland to Marcelle de Manziarly, July 29, 1941
[post office card]
"Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d."
excerpt: "I think the thing I mostly want is the feeling that we can always confide That will always keep us close-and the rest will take care of itself."
Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, June 2, 1964
[photo: Copenhagen. Amagertorv.]
Letter from Aaron Copland to his parents, April 7, 1922
[Hotel Lugano Pension Fleurie (Rome) stationery]
Music for the Theatre - Public domain document scan
[Walter Damrosch programmed]
A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger - Public domain document scan
published in various newspapers
Composing for Something Wild - Public domain document scan
unpublished article
Script for Appalachian spring, between 5291943 and 7101943
Reproduced with the permission of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc (Copyright Notice)
Darius Milhaud - Public domain document scan
[lecture/speech] for lecture #2 (incomplete), Tanglewood 1948
Symphonic ode rough sketches - Public domain music sheet scan
Not for the 1957 revision, but rather for a "clearer" version in the late 1920s
Letter from Martha Graham to Aaron Copland, Feb 17, 1941
Reproduced with permission of Martha Graham Resources, a division of The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, www.marthagraham.org. (Copyright Notice) Reproduced with the permission of the Aaron Copland... More
The Composer as Conductor - Public domain document scan
Picryl description: Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Symphonic ode rough sketches - Public domain music sheet scan
Not for the 1957 revision, but rather for a "clearer" version in the late 1920s
Of mice and men ms. open score, pencil
Question: do we need MGM's permission for these?
Aaron Copland - Appalachian spring [first rough sketches]
("Martha's Ballet" folder)
Of mice and men ms. open score, pencil
Question: do we need MGM's permission for these?