Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other spotlight of the day was on the Brewer's designated hitter. Hank Aaron, who appeared in his first American League game. Aaron received a walk from Red Sox pitcher Luis Tiant his first time up, to the disapproval of the fans, but went 0 for 3 the rest of the day, including a ground, out in the eighth inning with two men on base...
...collection of the manuscripts and most of the posters announcing the dates and times of the various lectures and an admission ticket from the Bernstein lecture. But aside from a few newspaper clippings, and about 20 copes of the same program from the first lecture given by Aaron Copland in 1952, there's nothing...
...committees down through the years have usually been successful in appointing important artists and scholars, including T.S. Eliot '10, Edwin Muir, e.e. cummings '10, and Octavio Paz literature; Edwin Panovsky and Laurence Binyon in fine arts; R. Buckminster Fuller in architecture; and Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky in music. But the committee has also been turned down. It tried to get W.H. Auden one year but he couldn't come. It seems that Auden wanted to come, but he was headed in the opposite direction, toward England. Edmund Wilson also turned down the Norton Chair, apparently because he didn...
...lectures are valuable because they get practitioners in the arts to set out their theories. Igor Stravinsky's lectures in 1939-40 on "The Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons" are strong examples; they're the only lectures to be given in a foreign language, French, Aaron Copland was the Norton lecturer in 1951-52 with "Music and Imagination." And in 1956-57 the painter Ben Shahn not only gave "exceptional lectures" on "The Shapes of Content" but he set up a studio in the basement of the Fogg museum, where he allowed students to watch...
...Krzystof Penderecki, who is doing an opera based on Milton's Paradise Lost for Chicago's Lyric Opera. Right now there are several hundred American composers, some working up to 20 hours a day on music commissioned during and for the Bicentennial. The big names, like Aaron Copland, have been forced to turn down requests by the dozen. With millions available in grants and more money to come, the Bicentennial is the biggest bonanza for the American composer since Hollywood discovered the musical...