Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... popular songs and to accompany her brother Ralph at the violin. She helped teach Aaron to play the piano, to dance, and to drive a car. A strong, attractive, and vivacious woman (Aaron inevitably referred to her as “the lively one ...
... popular destination for Italian and Eastern-European Jewish immigrants fleeing the crowded ghettos of Manhattan's Lower East Side. By 1920, such immigration, which helped double Brooklyn's population to over two million, dramatically ...
... popular Italian and French operas of the day. In Act I, Naomi (a peculiarly Jewish name for the work's Italian heroine) and Lorenzo, a “reformed gambler,” celebrate their wedding in a small Italian town, Naomi ignoring the warnings of ...
... popular American styles. At about this time Copland composed some less finished things: a rudimentary Theme and Variations for piano, which is of interest because its main theme, in its compression, looks ahead to the Piano Variations ...
... popular stage. A fervent Zionist, he suggested that they immigrate to Palestine together.” He also offered Copland guidance in French literature, in 1918 recommending Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe, which made “a deep impression” on ...
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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 |