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Copland's America


WEB CREDITS

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Production Assistants: Peter Tierney, Arianna de Sano
Writer: John Ardoin

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About the Writer
John Ardoin is former music critic of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS and has been music consultant for GREAT PERFORMANCES for 20 years, as well as a writer for many of its presentations. He is author of six books, including THE CALLAS LEGACY, CALLAS AT JUILLIARD, THE STAGES OF MENOTTI, and THE FURTWAENGLER RECORD.

Slide Show Photo Credits
Slide 6: Aaron Copland teaching. Courtesy of BBC.
All other images courtesy of the Library of Congress, Music Division.

GREAT PERFORMANCES Web pages copyright © 2001 Educational Broadcasting Corporation.

 
TELEVISION CREDITS


Music performed by the
EOS ORCHESTRA
JONATHAN SHEFFER
Conductor and Artistic Director

with
THOMAS HAMPSON
baritone
RICHARD STOLTZMAN
clarinet
RICHARD MUENZ
narrator
BASIL TWIST
puppeteer

and
THE COLLEGIATE CHORALE

"Fanfare for the Common Man"
1942

JONATHAN SHEFFER
Conductor and composer

DAVID DEL TREDICI
Composer

JOHN CORIGLIANO
Composer

"Symphony No. 3"
1946

Copland conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (1965)

Leonard Bernstein (1975)

"Appalachian Spring"
1944

HOWARD POLLACK
Biographer

Nadia Boulanger (1975)

"Music For The Theatre: Dance"
1925

"Four Piano Blues: With Bounce"
1926

ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL
Composer

"Statements: Jingo"
1935

"El Salón México"
1936

DAVID DEL TREDICI

In rehearsal with the London Symphony Orchestra (1975)

JOHN CORIGLIANO

"Old American Songs: The Boatmen's Dance"
1952

THOMAS HAMPSON

"Billy the Kid"
1939

Choreography by Eugene Loring

HOWARD POLLACK

"Rodeo"
1942

Choreography by Agnes de Mille

JONATHAN SHEFFER

"Appalachian Spring"
1944

Choreography by Martha Graham

Martha Graham dancing (1957)

"From Sorcery to Science"
Hall of Pharmacy, 1939 World's Fair

"From Sorcery To Science: The Chinese Herbalist"
1939

RICHARD MUENZ

BASIL TWIST

ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL

THE CITY
1939

THE NORTH STAR
1943

"Song of the Guerrillas"
1943

THE COLLEGIATE CHORALE

Copland at Tanglewood (1951)
Leonard Bernstein (1975)

LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S
"Sonata For Clarinet"
1941

RICHARD STOLTZMAN

Gervase de Peyer rehearsing Copland's "Clarinet Concerto" (1964)

"Connotations"
1962

"Appalachian Spring: Simple Gift Variations"
1944


AARON COPLAND
1900 - 1990

Produced by
JOHN WALKER

The Performance

Produced and Directed by
DAVID HORN

Line Producer
MITCH OWGANG

Coordinating Producer
MONA NIEMIEC

Production Design
JOSEF ASTOR
CLAY BROWN

Lighting Designer
ALAN ADELMAN

Costume Design
KEVIN SCOTT

Recorded and Mixed by
TOM LAZARUS
MARC STEDMAN

Audio Consultant
PHILIP TRAUGOTT

Editors
GARY BRADLEY
GARY WOODRUFF
LAURA YOUNG

Associate Director
KAREN McLAUGHLIN

Associate Producer
NOELLE SERPER

Stage Manager
MARK McKENNA

Engineer in Charge
MARK SCHUBIN

Technical Director
EMMETT LAUGHRAN

Camera
MIGUEL ARMSTRONG
MANNY GUTIERREZ
JOHN KOSMACZEWSKI
DAVE SMITH

Video
BILLY STEINBERG

Audio Assists
DARYL BORNSTEIN
ANDY STRAUBER

Gaffer
MICHAEL CALLAHAN

Varilite Operator
VICTOR FABLE

Varilite Assistant
MATT HUDSON

Videotape
NOEL BLUMENAU
MARK KATZ

Utility
TOM CARROLL
ANTHONY DEFONZO
JOHN HOPKINS

Dolly Grip
BILL JACKSON
TONY PASCENTO

Makeup
DARIANNE

Art Department Assistant
EMILY BECK

Wardrobe
JENNIFER GREENE
RACHEL HAAS

Scenics
JIM DONAHUE
CHRIS DOOGAN
EDWARD HAYNES
JULIE SLOANE

Stage Crew
RAFEAL ASENCIO
CHRISTOPHER LONG
JOHN VIANA

Production Secretary
JACKIE LING

Production Aides
GREG ARCINIEGA
DAVID LANPHIER
VICTORIA VENANTINI
KATHLEEN WELLS
JOHN WILEY


For Eos Orchestra

Executive Director
STEPHEN VANN

Director of Operations and Education
LEE ELLEN HVEEM

Orchestra Manager/Contractor
ADRIA BENJAMIN

Assistant Conductor
ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE


The Collegiate Chorale

Music Director
ROBERT BASS


The Documentary

Camera
ROSS KEITH

Sound
SEAN O'NEILL

Graphic Design
STEVE BONNETT

Rostrum Camera
COLIN HANCOCK

Colourist
CHRIS PACKMAN

On-line Editor
IAN WILLIAMS

Dubbing Mixer
STEVE HUDSON

Film Extracts:
Kroll Productions Inc
American Ballet Theatre
Wesleyan University
RSA Venture
De Mille Productions
Imagebank/Archive Films
UCLA Film and TV Archive
Hot Shots/Cool Cuts, Inc
Streamline Films

Photographs:
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc
The Copland Collection, Library of Congress
Rheba Kraft
Walter H. Scott
Ruth Orkin
Corbis-Bettmann
Ronald Grant Archive
Kobal Collection
Boosey & Hawkes
Margaret Bourke-White/Life Magazine/Time Inc.
Dorothea Lange Collection, The Oakland Museum of California
George Eastman House
Scott Heiser
Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Karl Blossfeldt Archiv/Ann u. Jürgen Wilde, Köln/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

With thanks to
BARRIE GAVIN
HUMPHREY BURTON
RODNEY GREENBERG

Unit Manager
STEPHANIA MINICI

Production Assistant
MARILYN HOWE

Editor
COLIN MINCHIN

Produced and Directed by
DAVID THOMPSON

Executive Producers
JAC VENZA
PETER MANIURA

A Production of Thirteen/WNET New York and BBC.

©Educational Broadcasting Corporation/BBC 2000.


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