Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... “Vocalise” (1924–28) 121 10. From Vitebsk to the Piano Variations (1928–30) 142 11. Copland Among His Peers 159 12. Copland and Younger American Composers 178 13. South of the Border 216 14. Personal Affairs 234 Contents.
... American tour, she encouraged Americans to “grapple with . . . the ... composers whom she disliked, one exception being Rachmaninov, of whom she ... American students: through these interests she whetted and broadened their cultural ...
... American composers to take up residence in Montparnasse, followed, within a few years, by George Antheil and such Boulanger students as Virgil Thomson and Walter Piston (even though Boulanger's studio at 36 Rue Ballu, now 3 Place Lili ...
... America more clearly from across the ocean than when living right inside it.” Although these shared sentiments made Copland, among American composers, a particularly representative figure of the “lost generation,” he was in many ways ...
... American composers who, decades earlier, had worked in the shadow of Wagner, Brahms, and Strauss.” From his years in Paris, when Stravinsky became his “hero,” to the end of his life, Copland named the Russian as his favorite twentieth ...
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6 From Sonata Movement to Grohg 192124 | 76 |
7 Return and Rediscovery | 88 |
8 The Usable Past | 107 |
19 Music for the Movies and for Keyboard 193941 | 336 |
20 From Lincoln Portrait to Danzόn Cubano 1942 | 357 |
21 From The North Star to Appalachian Spring 194344 | 378 |
22 From Jubilee Variation to Four Piano Blues 194548 | 407 |
23 From The Red Pony to the Piano Quartet 194850 | 428 |
24 The Changing Scene | 451 |
25 From Old American Songs to the Piano Fantasy 195057 | 467 |
26 From Dance Panels to Connotations 195962 | 486 |
9 From the Organ Symphony to Vocalise 192428 | 121 |
10 From Vitebsk to the Piano Variations 192830 | 142 |
11 Copland Among His Peers | 159 |
12 Copland and Younger American Composers | 178 |
13 South of the Border | 216 |
14 Personal Affairs | 234 |
15 Copland and the American Theater | 257 |
16 An Engaged Citizen | 270 |
17 From the Short Symphony to A Prairie Journal 193337 | 288 |
18 From Billy the Kid to John Henry 193840 | 314 |
27 From Emblems to Proclamation 196482 | 503 |
28 Identity Issues | 518 |
29 The Later Years | 532 |
Conclusion | 550 |
List of Works | 557 |
Notes | 564 |
Selected Bibliography | 664 |
Index | 671 |