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Aaron Copland & the Great Depression

Composer, lyricist, author, performer and teacher Louis Rosen leads special 2-hour lectures focused this season on the oeuvre of the “Dean of American composers,” Aaron Copland.

The 1929 stock market crash and the financial collapse that followed marked the end of the optimistic Jazz Age. Copland’s style during the first half of the 1930s leaves overt elements of jazz behind, and moves between a deeply expressive austerity, as reflected in his landmark Piano Variations, and a new folk-based accessibility that first appears with the wonderfully tuneful, rhythmically thrilling El Salon Mexico. Our lecture will go deeply into these two terrific compositions in context of the shifting political, social and economic environment of this volatile moment in time.











When: Thu., Oct. 20, 2016 at 1:30 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $45
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Composer, lyricist, author, performer and teacher Louis Rosen leads special 2-hour lectures focused this season on the oeuvre of the “Dean of American composers,” Aaron Copland.

The 1929 stock market crash and the financial collapse that followed marked the end of the optimistic Jazz Age. Copland’s style during the first half of the 1930s leaves overt elements of jazz behind, and moves between a deeply expressive austerity, as reflected in his landmark Piano Variations, and a new folk-based accessibility that first appears with the wonderfully tuneful, rhythmically thrilling El Salon Mexico. Our lecture will go deeply into these two terrific compositions in context of the shifting political, social and economic environment of this volatile moment in time.

Buy tickets/get more info now