Garfield Cadets’ “Appalachian Spring” resulted in the corps’ fourth DCI title in five years. Aaron Copland’s famed work premiered in 1944 as a chamber piece for 13 instruments, with the title, “Ballet for Martha.” Written for Martha Graham’s dance troupe, it was Graham who gave the title the name that endures. Copland rescored the work for full orchestra the following year and achieved almost instant success with it, capturing the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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