Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... Ned Rorem, Laurence Rosenthal, Christopher Rouse, Amy Rule, Joel Sachs, Arnold Salop, Michael Samford, Nancy Schoenberger, Gunther Schuller, Harold Shapero, Jonathan Sheffer, Zoya Shukhatovich, Doris Sing, Leonard Slatkin, Michael ...
... Ned Rorem saw it as a way of distancing people. A few rival composers and their wives simply thought him devious.10 But friends like Minna Lederman and Robert Cornell sensed in Copland's reserve nothing more nor less than a “mode of ...
... Ned Rorem's The Paris Diary because he felt that the book belittled her. He also defended her against charges of anti-Semitism, writing, “I feel certain that anti-Semitism was not part of Nadia Boulanger's personality.” Such devotion ...
... Ned Rorem, “considering how he encouraged others to let down their hair.”21 Copland recognized such contradictory impulses in himself. In some diary entries from the late 1920s, he expressed the fear that his “normal self” might repress ...
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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 |