Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... Violin Concerto, he questioned the composer's seeming disregard for “audience psychology,” writing, “It is not a question of giving an audience what it wants, but of not giving it more than you can reasonably expect it to be able to ...
... 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”), she married Charles Marcus, a successful clothier, in 1914 ...
... Violin Concerto. Although Ralph studied law, music remained “his greatest enjoyment,” according to his wife, Dorothy. Like Laurine, he followed Aaron's career with keen interest and attended various concerts and lectures; a letter on ...
... violin. Derived largely from Italian opera and Russian-Jewish dance music, the piece also incorporated something from popular American styles. At about this time Copland composed some less finished things: a rudimentary Theme and ...
... Violin Sonata, and began acquiring that composer's work, including the Viola Suite. He also gravitated toward such late Scriabin as Vers la Flamme and the Tenth Sonata, music that for the moment surpassed even Debussy and Ravel in his ...
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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 |