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In November 1980, composer Aaron Copland sat down with the late NPR host and producer Fred Calland (left) for a wide-ranging interview. NPR's Performance Today celebrates the composer's birthday (Nov. 14) with a week-long presentation of the interview accompanied by Copland's music.
In 1980, iconic American composer Aaron Copland sat down with the late NPR producer and host Fred Calland for a wide-ranging interview.
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In the last of our five days with the words and music of Aaron Copland, we hear the composer talk about an exciting episode in his life: the years he spent in Paris. And we hear Leonard Bernstein lead the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in the third and fourth movements from Copland's Symphony No. 3.
()Composer Aaron Copland talks about one of his operas, The Tender Land during his 1980 interview with the late NPR producer Fred Calland.
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Iconic American composer Aaron Copland discusses his work Lincoln Portrait. After his remarks, a concert performance of the work by the U.S. Marine Band, featuring our own Fred Child as narrator.
()Aaron Copland always harbored a secret desire to conduct, but his mentor, conductor Serge Koussevitzky, told him to stay home and write. After Koussevitzky died, Copland took up the baton. He talked with NPR's Fred Calland about his conducting during their 1980 interview.
()In his 1980 interview with NPR's Fred Calland, Aaron Copland discusses his Second Symphony, known as the "Short Symphony" — one of the composer's favorite works.
()Former NPR producer, musicologist and Civil War historian Andy Trudeau presents a brief overview of Copland's musical legacy.
()Fred Calland was a record collector, teacher and broadcaster with a long professional background in radio music programming, and a national reputation as an opera expert. Biographical information provided by The University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries, host of the Fred Calland Collection.
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