Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... Harold Clurman's Group Theatre, his romantic relationships, his work in Hollywood during the thirties and forties, his leftist activities and his hearing before a congressional committee during the McCarthy period, his controversial ...
... Harold Clurman. Another friend, the Chilean composer Juan Orrego-Salas, wrote to him, “I admire greatly your serenity. You are a man and an artist at ease with yourself. I truly believe that it is exactly there from which the greatness ...
... Harold Clurman, recalling an episode in which Copland intervened during an argument between himself and Nadia Boulanger, observed, Aaron is one of the most balanced persons I know; the most tactful, knowing exactly what to say to each ...
... Harold Clurman, who declared, “Art is my religion only insofar as it serves my greater religion, which is the respect for life, the respect for creation, the respect for human beings and for the totality of existence, which some people ...
... Harold Clurman, but Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Richard Wright." Something of Alger's sensibilities can be detected in a one-act “playlet” by Copland entitled The Home Coming, written when he was twelve years old ...
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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 |