Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composers (like Harvard's Walter Piston) have taken pride in being told that their music was "stravinskyesque." Aaron Copland, best of native U.S. composers, believes that Stravinsky's continuing hold on composers "is without parallel since Wagner's day." Even Bebopper Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, daddy of "progressive jazz," who think they have invented a new kind of music, concede generously that Stravinsky "uses some of the same sounds and rhythmical devices." The fact is that Stravinsky and jazz have learned from each other...
...became fashionable in the '20s to say that the fire in the Stravinsky furnace burned out before World War I. It is not so fashionable to say that now: in recent years even some hostile critics concede that Stravinsky's fire is still burning. Says Composer Aaron Copland, who is not hostile: "All the other composers over 50 -the famous ones, I mean-are turning out more or less what is expected of them . . . Only Stravinsky [writes so] that no one can predict just where he will be taking us next...
Appalachian Spring. Mrs. Coolidge has commissioned at least one of the great quartets of Bartók, another by Prokofiev, ballet music by Stravinsky (Apollon Musagètes), Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Milhaud and Hindemith, and countless works by U.S. composers like Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Howard Hanson, William Schuman. She built a $94,000 concert hall in the Library of Congress, and endowed it with $25,000 a year...
...good work done by Aaron and Hur that day should be an inspiration to U.S. laymen. So thought greying, conscientious Principal Harold Dressel of the Northrup Elementary School at River Rouge, Mich. When the new pastor of his church complained of the indifference of laymen in the congregations he had known, Methodist Dressel remembered Moses' helpers...
...began a mail campaign to his friends urging them to join a new secret society-"the Society of Aaron and Hur." There are no dues, meetings or committees. Members are asked to look up the 17th chapter of Exodus, then do their best to play Aaron and Hur to their minister, rabbi, priest-or even doctor, teacher or friend. "It may be only a sincere word of commendation or an offer to help in a tight spot. When you have done this twice yourself, you may nominate another person for membership. Write your nominee . . . and always remember that Jesus said...