It is an unusual spelling and there is some trivia about it, it turns out — it's an anglicisation of "Kaplan", either by his father or by an official at Ellis Island:
And If you google just "Copland", you instead get references to the Stallone/De Niro/Liotta/Sciorra/Keitel/Patrick/Rapaport/Berg/Garofalo/essentially everyone good in cinema movie Cop Land.
(Which I rarely miss an opportunity to recommend, and I guess this is one)
Ah, I could have sworn it's Copeland. Thanks for the correction.
It is an unusual spelling and there is some trivia about it, it turns out — it's an anglicisation of "Kaplan", either by his father or by an official at Ellis Island:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland#Early_years
Copland is enunciated "cope-land".. enunciation cop-land would be "copp(e)land". Your memory is probably accurate.
Indeed.
And If you google just "Copland", you instead get references to the Stallone/De Niro/Liotta/Sciorra/Keitel/Patrick/Rapaport/Berg/Garofalo/essentially everyone good in cinema movie Cop Land.
(Which I rarely miss an opportunity to recommend, and I guess this is one)
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