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Nick Goodwin, flute
Beverly Soll, piano

June 14, 2011 - Clibourn-Ryder Organ Studio/Recital Hall - Masconomet High School

American composer and conductor Aaron Copland is often considered "the Dean of American composers" being credited with forming a distinctly American neoclassical style of composition. Copland studied at the Fontainebleu School of Music in France with Isidor Philipp, Paul Vidal, and with the famed teacher Nadia Boulanger. In the 1940s, Copland's popular works such as Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man, as well as his ballets Rodeo and Appalachian Spring firmly established his worldwide fame. In his later life, he shifted his focus toward conducting and composing more avant garde works. An exception to this trend in Copland's later period in the Duo for Flute and Piano, written in 1970 in memory of William Kincaid, former principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra.