Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secure in his top rank among contemporary U.S. composers of symphonic music, Aaron Copland last week took the plunge into opera. Shy about his venture, Veteran (53) Composer Copland first thought of launching The Tender Land (a story of the rural Midwest) far from the calloused ears of Manhattan critics ("I thought maybe Canada"). Then came an irresistible offer to open it at the New York City Opera, and Copland gave...
Sere-Faced Farmers. Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland has no rural roots of his own (although his mother was raised in Peoria), but always knew he wanted to write an "American" opera. A dozen years ago, he read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a prose poem about the hardscrabble South by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Copland found it inspiring, afterward showed it to his librettist, Poet Horace Everett,* who was struck by the photographs of serefaced farmers and their families. Everett transferred the setting from the South to Kansas and finished the libretto two years...
Equality. In New Orleans, Aaron B. Smith, charged with arson, confessed that he helped set fire to five public schools, doing $85,000 damage, because he had only been through the first grade himself and "didn't want to see anybody else get an education...
William H. Aaron: Chairman, Freshman Smoker Committee; Union Committee--ex officio; Glee Club; Dunster Dunster; Student Council--associate ('51-'52); House Basketball; Combined Charities...
Sentimental Value. In Rochester, a jury acquitted William Aaron of a charge of illegal possession of a dangerous weapon after he testified that the blackjack police found in his desk was a memento given him by his mother 19 years before...