75
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary
of the premiere of
Appalachian Spring
October 30, 1944
Photo credit: Martha Graham, May O'Donnell, Pearl Lang, Marjorie Mazia, Yuriko, Nina Fonaroff, Merce Cunningham, and Erick Hawkins in Appalachian Spring. Photographer unknown, 1944. Courtesy of Martha Graham Resources.
T
his is a legend of American living. It is like the
bone structure, the inner frame that holds together
a people. Some things happen to our mothers and
some things happen to us, but they all happen to us. These
happenings flow from generation to generation and they are
our possessions and we are familiar with them.
This has to do with living in a new town, some place where
the first fence has just gone up. The different parts and
different characters span a long time length and do not fit
into any period of history. It should happen as such memories
flow through our hearts.
–– Martha Graham to Aaron Copland
