Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... admire greatly your serenity. You are a man and an artist at ease with yourself. I truly believe that it is exactly there from which the greatness of your contribution rises.” “He exuded calm,” agreed a painter friend, Richard Hennessy ...
... admired and, as he once admitted, almost resented drama's “naked” emotional power, as opposed to the less engulfing, more distilled musical experience: “Not infrequently I have been moved to tears in the theater; never at music ...
... admired Strauss, Ravel, and Debussy, of whom, according to Bernard Wagenaar, Goldmark “stood in awe.” “Contrary to a fairly general impression, he was not intolerant of the more advanced music of his contemporaries,” wrote Frederick ...
... admired Lafcadio's Adventures (1914), which similarly explores the extremes of mindless conformity and meaningless impulse; its satirical portrait of the French bourgeoisie made it a favorite with the young rebels of the 1920s. In the ...
... admired the celebrated American expatriate writers—especially Hemingway—he had only a passing acquaintanceship with any of them. Aside from Clurman, he would find his main literary and artistic friends only after returning to New York ...
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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 |