1. It costs a dime to look through this Bausch and Lomb high power telescope Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Zoom In Inquiry

2. What does this person do? What clues can you find in this picture to help you figure out what he does for a living?

4. Did you figure it out? Maybe the next picture will help you out.

5. Describe what you see.

6. Do you see anything new? Where do you think this picture might have been taken? Start forming a hypothesis about what the man does for a living.

7. What’s new now? Have you found anything to help you discover who the man was and what he did?

8. Describe the new things in the photograph. How does this change your hypothesis about the man?

10. Was your hypothesis correct? What does the man do? Do you think he might be known for doing something else, too? If so, what?

11. Aaron Copland ♫Born November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, NY ♫He started his musical training by taking piano lessons when he was 14. ♫He took composition lessons at 17 with a professor at the Julliard School of Music (prestigious music school in NY).

12. ♫After he graduated high school, he went to France to study with a very famous teacher (Nadia Boulanger). ♫He sold his first piece in 1921. It was called Scherzo Humoristique (Cat and Mouse).

13. ♫Copland became a well-known composer and teacher after his studies were completed. He also helped found Arrow Music Press (a music publishing company). ♫On October 16, 1938, his ballet Billy the Kid first opened in Chicago.

14. ♫He published his first book, What to Listen for in Music in 1939. He published at least five other books in his lifetime. ♫In 1942, Copland’s Lincoln Portrait was premiered in Cincinnati ♫He also complete two other important works that year: the ballet Rodeo and Fanfare for the Common Man.

15. ♫Copland won a Pulizter Prize and a NY Music Critics Circle Award for his ballet Appalachian Spring.

16. ♫Copland’s full-length opera, entitled The Tender Land premiered on April 1, 1954 in New York City. (Can anyone guess who was in that opera just a few years ago?)

17. Aaron Copland was a great American composer, teacher, and conductor. He made many popular and important recordings as a conductor and was a popular teacher at Harvard and Tanglewood. He also worked to free American music from the sound Europe by using jazz and folk music to create his compositions.

18. Biographical Information taken from Aaron Copland Collection: Timeline 1900-1990; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/copland/actime.html Introductory Photo: Aaron Copland at Rock Hill Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field%28NUMBER+@od1%28copland+phot0100%29%29 Zoom-In Photo: Aaron Copland conducting at a recording session, England Copyright: Mrs. Rheba Kraft, Providence, RI Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field%28NUMBER+@od1%28copland+phot0037%29%29 Photo: Aaron Copland at piano with space heater Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field%28NUMBER+@od1%28copland+phot0018%29%29 Photo: Nadia Boulanger and her class, Paris, 1923 Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/coplandbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(coplandbib/phot0094)) Credits

19. Photo: Billy the Kid: production shot, 1938 Copyright: New York Public Library, Photographic Services and Permissions Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(coplandbib/phot0044)) Photo: Set and cast for the first production of Appalachian Spring. Left to right: Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, May O'Donnell, Merce Cunningham, the four followers. A posed picture rather than a still from the dance, 1944 Collection: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(coplandbib/phot0115)) Photo: The Tender Land, production shot, 1954 Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(coplandbib/phot0045)) Photo: Aaron Copland conducting Copyright: Mary Leipziger, Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field%28NUMBER+@od1%28copland+phot0038%29%29 More Credits…

20. And Still More Credits… Photo: Aaron Copland conducting, Berlin, 1970 Copyright: Mrs. Rheba Kraft, Providence, RI Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field%28NUMBER+@od1%28copland+phot0041%29%29 Photo: Aaron Copland outdoors, 1978 Collection: Aaron Copland Collection; Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/S?ammem/coplandbib:@field%28NUMBER+@od1%28copland+phot0033%29%29