Remembering Aaron Copland on his birthday πŸŽ‚
πŸ“· Irving Penn, 1979
"He has never turned out bad work, nor worked without an inspiration. His stance is that not only of a professional but also of an artist - responsible, prepared, giving of his best."
- Virgil Thomson
An undated portrait of Aaron Copland by the composer David Diamond, who was a fine photographer.
"By having sold out to the mongrel commercialists half-way already, the danger is going to be wider for you, and I beg you dear Aaron, don't sell out entirely yet."
Aaron Copland by George Platt Lynes (undated)
@BeineckeLibrary
"The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art."
Aaron Copland & Heitor Villa-Lobos by Genevieve Naylor, 1942
Naylor & Copland were in Brazil, along with Orson Welles & Walt Disney, as part of Nelson Rockefeller's cultural exchange initiative, to keep Latin America away from the influence of the Axis powers.
Coffee with Aaron Copland β˜•οΈ
Gordon Parks took this shot for an October 1955 issue of Life magazine.
Aaron Copland & Oscar Levant laugh it up at a Leonard Bernstein party, photographed by Stanley Kubrick in 1949 for Look magazine
@MuseumofCityNY
I adore this shot!
Allen T. Winigrad
Aaron Copland with Marian Anderson, rehearsing "Lincoln Portrait", 1976
@librarycongress
You can hear a short clip of her performance with @nyphil
archives.nyphil.org/lincolnportrai…
Jane Fowler Morse
Aaron Copland under an umbrella, University of Kansas, 1973
@librarycongress
I took a walk this morning during another atmospheric river visit, so I can relate. β˜”οΈ
Aaron Copland by Erich Auerbach, 1962
When Walter Damrosch heard Copland's Organ Symphony, he said, "If a young man can write a piece like that at the age of 24, in five years he will be ready to commit murder!"
Aaron Copland by Philippe Halsman, 1964
"I occasionally had the strange sensation of being divided in half - the austere, intellectual modernist on the one side; the accessible, popular composer on the other."
Leonard Bernstein between two mentors: Aaron Copland & Serge Koussevitzky.
πŸ“· Ruth Orkin, 1940
Aaron Copland by Arnold Newman
Peekskill NY, 1959
"There was always a modesty about Copland, an attitude of not taking success for granted."
- Minna Lederman Daniel
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring was composed at night at the Samuel Goldwyn studios in Hollywood.
"An air of mystery hovers over a film studio after dark. Its silent & empty streets give off something of the atmosphere of a walled medieval town."
Aaron Copland by Al Hirschfeld, 1997 & 1999
"More than one person thought of Ichabod Crane; and by coincidence he spent his later years in Washington Irving country up on the Hudson."
- Howard Pollack

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Remembering Veronica Lake on her birthday πŸŽ‚
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Remembering Louise Brooks on her birthday πŸŽ‚
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"Brooks is a flame fluttering in the wind of her own breath."
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"The only star actress I can imagine either being enslaved by or wanting to enslave; and a dark lady worthy of any poet's devotion."
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Remembering Claude Monet on his birthday πŸŽ‚
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Another thread of a favourite photographer: Life magazine's Carl Mydans 🧡
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