Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerts, was unruffled by the wet evening. He knew that of the hardy hundreds who braved the rain, some were there to hear the light, pleasant band numbers: a grand march, a Strauss waltz, a fantasy for cornet. Others came for the tangier items by modern composers: Aaron Copland's An Outdoor Overture (led by the composer), a suite for band by the late British composer Gustav Hoist, works by Percy Grainger, Philip James, Stravinsky. Bandmaster Goldman caters to varied tastes, puts on music undreamed-of in oldtime band-concert days, when the Poet and Peasant Overture...
...confused with California's Representative Thomas F. Ford, Mississippi's Representative Aaron U. Ford, both New Dealers...
After a very successful premiere in Boston's Jordan Hall last week, the opera "The Second Hurricane," by Aaron Copland, will be presented in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8:30 o'clock, under the sponsorship of the Lowell House Music Society and under the direction of Leonard Bernstein...
...special demand performance of Aaron Copeland's youth opera "The Second Hurricane" will be presented by the Lowell House Musical Society at 8:45 o'clock on Friday evening at Sanders Theatre...
Three composers went to work on a job usually reserved for painters. Aaron Copland dug into a Modern Library version of Abraham Lincoln's life and letters, and tried to write down his impressions in music. Jerome Kern thumbed through his Mark Twain first editions and manuscripts in his Beverly Hills library. Virgil Thomson spent two hours in Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's City Hall office in Manhattan, watched and jotted down music while the Mayor received visitors. He also spent a morning in Pundit Dorothy Thompson's library while she read and, after her fashion, meditated...