Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... composer's personal life unexplored. The time had come for a more candid discussion of Copland the man as well as for some new critical thinking about the music.” Toward this end I made repeated visits to the Copland Collection housed ...
... composer as “cerebral” or “intellectual” carried somewhat negative connotations. He identified rather with the image ... composer's seeming disregard for “audience psychology,” writing, “It is not a question of giving an audience what it ...
... composer's mother, Sarah Mittenthal, was a child of about six when she and her mother, Bertha (“Boshie”), arrived in America from Vishtinetz (Vistytis), a small town on the Russian-Lithuanian border near Kaliningrad, to join her father ...
... composer, who seemed fascinated by him and “amused when told by him, “You are living here like a yogi.'” Copland ... composer's 1941 “sanitized” autobiographical sketch “shrouded” his Jewish origins." But if Copland was discreet ...
... composer was not to be lightly embarked upon, and that the composer's discipline was a severe and arduous one.” He thought it “significant” that when Juilliard opened its doors in 1924, Goldmark headed the theory and composition ...
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 |