Posts Tagged: copland house

Apropos six years

…since living at Copland House in Cortland Manor, New York (the last residence of Aaron Copland). 2017. Late summer. Three weeks. The world was different — at least mine was. Earth’s curvature hiding what was beyond the horizon. Surrounded by Copland’s (Aaron’s?) earthly treasures, came this “miniature” for Lara Downes: a dialogue between two people

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Video: Apropos – Lara Downes & Leonard Bernstein

The intrepid Lara Downes gave a recital of many of her “anniversaries” for Lenny (Bernstein) on June 1, 2018 at Trinity Wall Street and included Apropos, written for her at Copland House last August. This compact miniature is an imagined conversation between Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. The opening and closing melody takes the theme

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