Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their second show. There were two new ballets by Balanchine. Critics (whose papers had to buy them memberships to get them in) liked best his linear Divertimento, had kind words for Renard the Fox, to music by Stravinsky. Ballet Society has commissioned scores by Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith and Aaron Copland. Says Choreographer Balanchine: "In spite of all we have done, Americans do not appreciate ballet unless you bring something from Europe. We want to show that Americans are good...
...Brooklyn's Washington Avenue, where Roger Sessions was born 50 years ago, Aaron Copland was born four years later. In 1928 the two composers sponsored a Copland-Sessions concert series for contemporary music. During the past two years, Sessions has taught composition at the University of California along with his onetime teacher, Composer Ernest Bloch, and often visits France's Darius Milhaud, who teaches at nearby Mills College. In this stimulating atmosphere he has half-finished a third symphony and has begun a four-act opera called Montezuma. He started the Roosevelt symphony in 1944 at Princeton...
David Niven, a thin, sprightly Englishman, plays Aaron Burr, and although he does not carry a label of the variety commonly employed by political cartoonists, he is easily recognizable as the scoundrel. Burgess Meredith, as "Father of the Constitution" and name-giver to a high school in Brooklyn, does the only reasonable...
...evening concerts which will climax each day's work, new compositions by Walter Piston, Arnold Schoenberg, Aaron Copland, and Paul Hindemith will be played by the Walden String Quartet, the Collegiate Chorale of New York...
When the spray settled around the Indoor Athletic Building last Saturday night, diver Bob Aaron of the Crimson swimmers had walked off from the 3-meter board with an all high pool point total of 110.9 points, a most significant share in his teammates scuttling of the Brown sqquad...