Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... Perlis publications (1984, 1989)—a magisterial compilation of autobiography, biography, oral history, and photographs—offered little in the way of critical commentary and left important areas of the composer's personal life unexplored ...
... Perlis, Phillip Ramey, Wayne Shirley, and Darryl Wexler for their many thoughtful suggestions; and to the University of Houston for providing significant aid in the way of a one-semester sabbatical and travel and other grants. This page ...
... Perlis relates, when he would send everybody back to work, with the command “au travail!” A night owl, he usually began his day around nine or ten in the morning with a small breakfast, during which he lingered over newspapers and ...
... Perlis: I wasn't a toughie as a youngster. I must have run into kids who were much tougher than I was. You had to sort of be careful of what you said and did to stay out of trouble, that kind of thing. That was a kind of vague ...
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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 |