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The Copland You Know —and the Copland You Don’t
How the son of a Lithuanian immigrant discovered the American sound
By Colin Eatock
The critic–composer Virgil Thomson famously declared, “Every town in America has two things — a five-and-dime and a Boulanger pupil.” He was talking about the famous French music teacher Nadia Boulanger, whose school at Fontainebleau Palace, just outside Paris, became a mecca for young composers from the United States.
Boulanger was one of the defining forces of American music in the twentieth century.
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Many of her pupils went on to have impressive careers, but none more so than a twenty-one-year-old New Yorker who had started in music late but was determined to become a composer. His name was Aaron Copland.
Copland was the youngest of five children born into a family of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants.
(Originally Kaplan, Aaron’s father anglicized the family name en route t