Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... Philip Glass, Morris Golde, Sylvia Goldstein, Neil Gould, Judith R. Greenwald, Kim Hartquist, Richard Hennessy, Jeff ... Phillip Ramey, Wayne Shirley, and Darryl Wexler for their many thoughtful suggestions; and to the University of ...
... Phillip Ramey—three of his closest friends—all independently observed how strangely uncommunicative he appeared at the death of a beloved family member or friend. Diamond concluded, “There's never a scene with Aaron. He knows exactly ...
The Life & Work of an Uncommon Man Howard Pollack. Phillip Ramey said to him, “Aaron, you could have been a diplomat,” he responded, “Or a psychiatrist.” Although he was sometimes fidgety and skittish in his movements— he joked that he ...
... Phillip Ramey away from the television set with the suggestion that they look over some scores together. After Ramey declined, explaining that he was watching an episode of Star Trek, Copland shook his head and left the room, saying ...
... Phillip Ramey reminded him that he had spoken of having “resigned from the Jewish church.” His will specified that his funeral service, if any, be “non-religious.” Over the course of his career, he nonetheless wrote a handful of works ...
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 |