Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... Schoenberg and Stravinsky as “ugly,” and held up German Romantic music as best representing “universal” ideals. “Of course Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Wagner were Germans, to the everlasting honor and credit of their people,” he stated ...
... Schoenberg and Bartók during these years, devoting one tea in 1923 to Schoenberg's brand-new twelve-tone method of composition. Even as late as her 1925 American tour, she encouraged Americans to “grapple with . . . the tremendous scope ...
... Schoenberg, for whom he expressed only a cool respect.” Meanwhile Copland took classes in French literature and history at the Sorbonne and attended plays with Clurman, including productions of Chekhov, Shaw, Molnár, Wilde, Strindberg ...
... Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Krenek, and Wellesz from Austria; Hindemith and Weill from Germany; Casella and Malipiero from Italy; Hába from Czechoslovakia; Bartók from Hungary; and jazz and popular music from the Americas. Copland ...
... Schoenberg, Webern, and others. Copland taught at the New School until 1930, taking five years off before returning there in 1935, by which time the much-enlarged faculty included or would soon include Henry Cowell, Charles Seeger ...
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 |