Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, a luxurious classroom for U.S. art & music students, had grown out of Walter Damrosch's World War I school for Army bandmasters. Among those who passed through its famed English gardens and composition classes were Aaron Copland, Walter Piston and Dick Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hart). In the early '20s, Composer Francis Casadesus had run the music school. Present director: his famed nephew, Pianist Robert Casadesus, whose wife, Pianist Gaby, is also on the faculty...
...formulas and shopworn lace, to shelter three possible excuses for a picture: music, dancing and bullfighting. The bullring sequences get along without picadors or coups de grace, and apparently the same old company bull is photographed again & again. More stirring is Johnny (Body & Soul) Green's rearrangement of Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico. Bits of the dancing (by Mexican Star Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse) are more tense and percussive than the brand generally seen north of the border...
...Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, and Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger's Third ("Liturgique") Symphony. He considers Stravinsky and Gershwin the best U.S. composers (he likes Porgy and Bess particularly because "it is expressive of a people"). What did he think of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, which he also heard for the first time? Said he: "I like his other works, but I was not impressed with this symphony. ... I had a feeling that ... it was influenced too much by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Stravinsky...
...sort of Hayes-Tilden stalemate. It is the 49th State of the Union which holds the decisive balance. How feverish the crowds in Times Square grow as the slow returns pour in! "Seven districts in Hammersmith give Wallace a plurality of 54," with James A. Garfield and Aaron Burr trailing badly. Then the grand finale in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's lions magically changed to eagles at the touch of Henry's wand, and all the fountains playing pure Coca-Cola. What a revenge...
...Aaron Copland's "In the Beginning" was the most warmly received of the three commissioned works. It is a simple piece, consisting largely of recitative choral chant and of solos in arioso form. Some of the more extended choral passages are in two widely-spaced parts only. A few are more compact. The English declamation, though utterly clear, is not rhythmically idiomatic. It resembles rather Gregorian chant as sung by the Benedictine monks at Solesmes, except that the melodic intervals are neither proximate nor melismatic, lying chiefly between the fourth and the ninth. This constant skipping around is not unpleasant...