Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... Stravinsky's, THE face. A hawk, yet not predatory. Not what you would call good-looking—something much better, more striking.” Others similarly described him paradoxically as “stunningly ugly,” as “endearingly homely,” as having a ...
... Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, he was the obvious choice to play the narrator, whether the Soldier and Devil were Roger Sessions and Virgil Thomson, as they were in one production, or Elliott Carter and John Cage, as they were in ...
... Stravinsky did likewise. This did not mean, he reminded one interviewer, that he merely improvised at the piano: Actually, it's more like using the piano as a large typewriter: the instant before you start to work, you know what it is ...
... Stravinsky was a madman.” Copland made his debut as a pianist performing Paderewski's Polonaise in B in a recital of Wolfsohn's students at John Wanamaker's. “Ironic,” he noted to himself, “that I made my debut in a department store ...
... 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 during World ...
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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 |