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Appalachian Spring is an American ballet created by the composer Aaron

Copland and the choreographer Martha Graham (pictured), later arranged as an
orchestral work. Copland composed the ballet for Graham upon a commission
from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Set in a 19th-century settlement in
Pennsylvania, the ballet follows the Bride and the Husbandman as they get
married and celebrate with the community. The original choreography was by
Graham, with costumes by Edythe Gilfond and sets by Isamu Noguchi. The
ballet was well-received at the 1944 premiere, earning Copland the Pulitzer
Martha Graham, Prize for Music during its 1945 United States tour. The orchestral suite
choreographer composed in 1945 was played that year by many symphony orchestras; the suite
is among Copland's best-known works, and the ballet remains essential in the
Martha Graham Dance Company repertoire. A film version of the original production was released
in 1958 with Graham as the Bride; a similar recording was released in 1976 with Yuriko.
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The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in
the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern
Tennessee, which was part of the war's western theater. Two Union armies combined to
defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi. Major General Ulysses S. Grant was the
Union commander, while General Albert Sidney Johnston was the Confederate
commander until his battlefield death, when he was replaced by his second-in-command,
General P. G. T. Beauregard. Though victorious, the Union army had more casualties than
the Confederates, and with an overall total of almost 24,000 injuries and fatalities, it was
one of the bloodiest battles in the entire war. This chromolithograph of the Battle of Shiloh
was produced by American illustrator Thure de Thulstrup and printed by L. Prang & Co. in
Boston in 1888.

Illustration credit: Thure de Thulstrup; restored by Adam Cuerden

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