Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... composers. “Considering that I am a person who lacks no possible human failing,” wrote Oscar Levant, “I have been constantly amazed by Copland's generosity.”18 Copland was a diligent and constant worker, yet another facet of his rather ...
... Composing and reading were most important to him,” remembered his friend Gerald Sykes. In 1921 Copland wrote to his parents, “I am doing my usual amount of devouring of books.” The following year he further told them, “I wonder if you ...
... Copland composed some less finished things: a rudimentary Theme and Variations for piano, which is of interest because its main theme, in its compression, looks ahead to the Piano Variations (1930); and a song a la Victor Herbert about ...
... Copland set three of Schaffer's poems: “My Heart Is in the East” (composed in May), “Summer Vacation” (April to May), and “Night” (composed July to December). (Although he referred to these as Three Songs, he did not specify any ...
... Copland traveled to Austin and when Schaffer and his wife, Dorothy, visited Tanglewood. “I need hardly tell you with how much interest we read and hear of your numerous and varied achievements in the world of music,” he wrote to Copland ...
Contents
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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 |