Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... hearing before a congressional committee during the McCarthy period, his controversial adoption of the twelve-tone method of composition, his conducting career, and his struggle with debilitating dementia in his final years. Pollack ...
... He kept cool even at the time of his McCarthy hearing, prompting his friend Edwin Denby to write, “It is extraordinary even now I can't detect a sign in you that you have been through any trouble. I mean in the sense of 4 AAR ON CO PLAN D.
... hearing new scores. For all his sociability, he had little taste for small talk.30 Not really athletically inclined, in his younger days he nonetheless became somewhat adept at tennis and enjoyed playing it. During his more senior years ...
... hearing in 1922 that his parents were about to retire: “What does Pop intend to occupy himself with (since one can't play pinochle all day long).” He doubted that his parents would enjoy themselves traveling about Europe: “This applies ...
... hearing him play this work in a recital in Fontainebleau on 21 September 1921, the publisher Jacques Durand bought it outright for five hundred francs. Published as Scherzo Humoristique (subtitled Le Chat et la Souris), this debut ...
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 |