Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... seems pregnant with possibilities for development. Once you have the kinds of ideas that fascinate you, you're no ... seem long enough to carry you through ten minutes of music, so you have to start searching about for other ideas ...
... seems that he reused only a relatively small percentage of his work and typically only music that he had discarded or suppressed for one reason or another, the materials at the Copland Collection are helping scholars like Daniel Mathers ...
... seems to me,” he wrote on another occasion, “would combine the preparation of the trained professional with the innocence of the intuitive amateur.”2° Between composing, writing, and eventually conducting, Copland had little time for ...
... seems to have associated Jewish life with the hardships of the ghettos of Eastern Europe, as reflected in his piano trio Vitebsk. A comment, made in Israel in 1951, about the local population looking “healthy and happy and very un ...
... seems more melancholy than militant, reflecting a more general yearning for home.24 Schaffer may have brought Copland closer to his Jewish roots; in the same month as “My Heart,” he began a Lament for cello and piano (completed April ...
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 |