75
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary
of the premiere of
Appalachian Spring
October 30, 1944
Photo credit: Erick Hawkins in Appalachian Spring. With (left to right): Pearl Lang, Marjorie Mazia, Yuriko, Nina Fonaroff, Martha Graham, and May O'Donnell. Photographer unknown, 1944.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Music Division.
T
he Man enters who is called the CITIZEN. (We
may find a better name for him later.) He is an
American Man. He has a certain raw-boned grace
about him, as well as an awkward beauty of bone. He is a
man who fights when he does not like to fight, simply because
he knows he must do so to bring about the things in which he
believes. Aaron, I wish this could have some of the quality of
the Thoreau journals, simple and straight and possessed
of some of the magic of the everyday.
–– Martha Graham to Aaron Copland
