The bar poles are up. The fence has not been completed. Only a marriage has been celebrated. It is essentially the coming of new life. It has to do with growing things.
Spring is the loveliest and the saddest time of the year.
Additional strings were added later, and the composer has frequently conducted the concert suite of the ballet score independently of a dance performance. The instant success of the score, leading to his Pulitzer Prize, had surprised him. The American theme of both music and the choreography was then very close to the heart of the ballet's creators. It was an America which was not a colony, it was an independent cultural experiment. Mr. Copland agreed.