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=== Later performances === ''Appalachian Spring'' remains an essential production in the [[Martha Graham Dance Company]] repertoire.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Erin |date=October 9, 2014 |title=Documenting Dance: The Making of {{'}}''Appalachian Spring''{{'}} |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2014/10/documenting-dance-the-making-of-appalachian-spring/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827202350/https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2014/10/documenting-dance-the-making-of-appalachian-spring/ |archive-date=August 27, 2023 |access-date=August 17, 2023 |website=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref> Due to the high cost of licensing, the ballet was not performed by another company until 1998, when the [[Colorado Ballet]] staged it led by artistic director Martin Fredmann.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Spiegel |first=Jan Ellen |date=October 11, 1998 |title=Dance; ''Appalachian Spring'' Finds Renewal in the Rockies |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/arts/dance-appalachian-spring-finds-renewal-in-the-rockies.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818030028/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/arts/dance-appalachian-spring-finds-renewal-in-the-rockies.html |archive-date=August 18, 2023}}</ref> In 2013, the [[Baltimore School for the Arts]] put on a production for the "Appalachian Spring Festival" in association with the Graham Company, which featured a complete performance of the ballet and various art exhibits. It marked the first time a non-professional company was granted permission from the [[Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance|Martha Graham Center]] to perform the ballet.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Tim |date=April 7, 2013 |title={{'}}''Appalachian Spring''{{'}} Training |pages=E1, E7 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-appalachian-spring-t/130755939/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827202354/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-appalachian-spring-t/130755939/ |archive-date=August 27, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Appalachian Spring'' has been performed by numerous dance companies since, including the Onium Ballet Project in Hawaii,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mark |first=Steven |date=February 25, 2011 |title=Copland Revisited: A New Choreography of {{'}}''Appalachian Spring''{{'}} Has the Ballet in a New Milieu |pages=79 |work=[[Honolulu Star-Advertiser]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser-copland-revisit/130756040/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827202015/https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser-copland-revisit/130756040/ |archive-date=August 27, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> the [[Nashville Ballet]] in Tennessee,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stumpfl |first=Amy |date=March 6, 2016 |title=Nashville Ballet Season Includes Fresh Looks at Familiar Stories |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/arts/2016/03/06/nashville-ballet-season-includes-fresh-looks-familiar-stories/81217310/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827201553/https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/arts/2016/03/06/nashville-ballet-season-includes-fresh-looks-familiar-stories/81217310/ |archive-date=August 27, 2023 |access-date=August 18, 2023 |website=[[The Tennessean]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Dance Kaleidoscope in Indiana,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bongiovanni |first=Domenica |date=May 31, 2018 |title=Indy Dancers Are Presenting {{'}}''Appalachian Spring''{{'}} |pages=A18 |work=[[The Indianapolis Star]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-indy-dancers-are-p/130756170/ |access-date=August 18, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and the [[Sarasota Ballet]] in Florida.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=October 7, 2021 |title=The Sarasota Ballet Returns With New World |url=https://www.balletherald.com/the-sarasota-ballet-returns-with-new-world/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818121905/https://www.balletherald.com/the-sarasota-ballet-returns-with-new-world/ |archive-date=August 18, 2023 |access-date=August 18, 2023 |website=The Ballet Herald |language=en-US}}</ref> Many consider ''Appalachian Spring'' one of Copland's best works;<ref name=":1" />{{Sfn|Crist|2005|p=176}} it holds equal notability in the Graham company's repertoire.{{Sfn|de Mille|1991|p=262}}{{Sfn|Robertson|1999|p=8}} The critic [[Terry Teachout]] wrote, "It is probably the greatest piece of classical music composed by an American. Certainly the greatest dance score composed by an American, completely comparable in quality to the great ballets of [[Tchaikovsky]] or [[Stravinsky]]. All that is best about mid-century American music is in this piece."<ref name=":1" /> In addition, the ballet was essential to the development of modern American ballet;{{Sfn|Rutkoff|Scott|1995|pp=210β211}} it and Copland's other Americana works represent the leftist national ideals important to the postwar era,{{Sfn|Oja|Tick|2005|pp=140β141}} but use traditional themes, steering away from the outwardly political works of many New York artists at the time.{{Sfn|Rutkoff|Scott|1995|p=210}} Lynn Garafola compared Copland and Graham's collaboration to that of Stravinsky and [[Diaghilev]]; whereas Stravinsky composed purely Russian scores for Diaghilev's [[Ballets Russes]], Copland composed American music for Graham's company, helping define American dance.{{Sfn|Oja|Tick|p=141|2005}}
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