He studied with Goldmark in New York, spent some time in Paris, and died in Tarrytown, New York.
He studied with Goldmark in New York, spent some time in Paris, and died in Tarrytown, New York. Although the style of such early compositions as the 1925 Music for the Theatre, was austere and abstract, he radically changed it in the mid-'30s in an effort to produce more accessible music. In his later career, he experimented with serialism in his orchestral pieces Connotations and Inscape, and with triadic style in Dance Panels and String Nonet. For ten points, name this folk-influenced American composer who penned The Tender Land, Fanfare for the Common Man and Rodeo.
He studied with Goldmark in New York, spent some time in Paris, and died in Tarrytown, New York.
Aaron {Copland}