Copland, Aaron. (1900–1990)

Our Town. Music from the Film Score. Full Score.

New York: Boosey and Hawkes. 1945. First edition. Full score. 35 cm. 30 p. Reproduced from the manuscript copy. Larg upright folio, in original grey illustrated wrappers, lightly toned, but otherwise pristine. Copland Complete Catalogue (B & H), p. 21.



Copland was nominated for an Academy Award for his score to the film adaptation of Thorton Wilder's play. "In 1940, when the play was about to become a film, the Hollywood producer Sol Lesser asked Aaron Copland to compose the music. Copland admired Wilder, and when he heard that 'Our Town' had been written mostly at the MacDowell Colony and that Grovers Corners was patterned after the town of Peterborough, NH, where Copland had composed several musical works, the combination was too much for the composer to resist." (Vivian Perlis, NY Times 1/31/1988) (2796)
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