Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wouldn't know that, sir," he replied contemptuously, "you'd have to take that up with my tax attorney." Like many another witness, Knohl was called before the committee because of his dealings with Caudle. Knohl was an "investigator" for Samuel Aaron and Jacob Friedus, New Yorkers later convicted of income-tax evasion. With Friedus, he recalled, he met Tax Prosecutor Caudle at the Department of Justice. "Caudle said, 'Mr. Friedus, this office has no persecution complex,' " Knohl testified...
Knohl bought one of them and Caudle picked up $5,000 commission. Two weeks later, Caudle recommended no prosecution of Samuel Aaron on grounds of illness, although a Government physician said he was able to stand trial...
...grey double-breasted suit strolled on to the nearly bare stage, clarinet in hand. Taking his time, he eventually reached a stool in a downstage corner. He tootled a few warm-up phrases; then the orchestra in the pit joined in a discreet background from Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra. Thereafter, Jerome Robbins' Pied Piper kept its happy air of the impromptu, but it was scarcely relaxed...
Whether he intended it that way or not, Robbins had also fashioned a perfect note-for-note caricature of Aaron Copland's plain and homely music. In doing so, he may have saved an otherwise inconsequential piece from oblivion...
...speakers are: Aaron Copland, Eliot Norton Professor of Music, a composer, Malcolm H. Holmas '29, Dean of of the New England Conservatory of Music, a conductor, and Gregory Tucker, Faculty member of the Harvard Music Department, a planist...