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An American in Paris: Aaron Copland and National Identity

Aaron Copland was one of many creatives who flocked to Paris in the 1920s, where he encountered several forces that shaped his career as a composer. While spending the summer of 1921 at the Fontainebleau school for American composition students outside of Paris, Copland met by chance his future mentor and lifelong friend Nadia Boulanger.1 […]