Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... the movement. I said, “I did not realize that you had finished it.” Aaron said, “No, I am not finished. I am just writing the ending.” He was astonished when I told him that I never wrote a piece 1() A A R O N C O P L AND.
... piece out of sequence, that it was impossible for me. I start at the beginning and work my way toward the end. I ... pieces was that they seemed “facile.” You have to be more “choisi,” he would lecture David Diamond. He personally found ...
... piece of art, a Picasso print of a bull and a horse, was a gift from Thornton Wilder. “Aaron was not visual,” friends often claimed, though Robert Cornell noted that he had, in fact, a “definite aesthetic” and a “visual philosophy ...
... piece, Valse Impromptu, a Schubertian effort again hampered by a restricted harmonic vocabulary. In the same year he acquired a “mail-order harmony course” and essayed his most ambitious piece to date, a Capriccio for piano and violin ...
... piece. Completed in 1921, this sonata demonstrated a capable handling of Romantic technique and rhetoric, like the music of such established Americans as Arthur Foote, Amy Beach, or Goldmark himself. Still, the sonata, with its ...
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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 |