Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opera commissioned by NBC, first given in 1939; Four Saints in Three Acts, with Virgil Thomson's gravely melodious music to Gertrude Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron Copland's play-opera for schools. The Second Hurricane; Deems Taylor's Metropolitan success of 1927, The King's Henchman...
...Aaron Copland's book, "Our New Music," although contributing a few good insights, is on the whole no more valuable than a modern composer's apologia pro arte sua should be, and about as impartial as an epitaph. He brings up the old notion that Beethoven and the Romantics were too "subjective" and personal, while the new music has to "grapple" with the objective problem of the times. Of course, he hastens to add, the old devices of melody, rhythm and strong feeling are still used, only "extended and enriched" and made more "objective." All this is reassuring reading...
...contest, held by a musicians' committee "to aid Spanish democracy," was over. The prize had gone to a young, unknown composer, William Schuman, for his Second Symphony. But the promised publication and performance never materialized. One of the sympathetic judges, genial, large-nosed Composer Aaron Copland, sent Schuman a post card, "Why don't you send your score to Serge Koussevitzky?" He did, and within a week got a letter from Koussevitzky asking for the parts. A performance followed that fall. Since then Koussevitzky has championed William Schuman's music. The Boston Symphony introduced his Third Symphony...
...Director Rich's show, 174 painters and 26 sculptors of Chicago (and vicinity) sent a work apiece. Most famed was Landscapist Aaron Bohrod (who won the Logan prize in 1937), noted for his glowing watercolors of Chicago back streets. Less well-known, but in the front rank of contemporary U.S. artists is Art Institute Instructor Francis Chapin, who was picked by the Museum of Modern Art for its recent show of little-known U.S. artists (TIME, Feb. 2). Copeland Burg, who paints between jobs as a crime reporter on the Herald-American, won a prize at the Institute show...
Whether it knows it yet or not, the U.S. is becoming the mightiest naval power in the world. Last week that dawning power was underlined once again: within the span of five days the Navy launched a submarine, three destroyers (Aaron Ward, Buchanan and Fahrenheit) and a battleship. Into the James River at Newport News, Va. smoked the hulk of the 35,000-ton Indiana, six months ahead of schedule...