Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... early in the day.” After a late-night snack, he might stay up still later reading. “This was not a man who wasted time,” observed his friend the composer John Kennedy.20 Copland composed primarily at the piano, working directly on the ...
... early nineteenth century. With the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, Brooklyn suddenly became a popular destination for Italian and Eastern-European Jewish immigrants fleeing the crowded ghettos of Manhattan's Lower East Side ...
... early sympathy for Zionism. His first trip to Israel in 1951 thoroughly converted him to the cause; the country, he wrote to friends, would make Zionists out of both Hitler and the old guard American composer Daniel Gregory Mason. On ...
The Life & Work of an Uncommon Man Howard Pollack. Early. Education. and. First. Works. Childhood and Adolescence Copland took all the usual classes at school but quickly gravitated toward literature and music ... Early Education and First ...
... locket the young man is wearing, that Maurice is their son, whereupon “Lorenzo kills himself as Maurice dies in Naomi's hands.” Copland's youthful stab at Italian-French opera reveals, unwittingly as it 31 Early Education and First 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 |