Word: copland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles C. Copland '83, professor of English, emeritus, will deliver his traditional Christmas reading to the '44s on December 18, the Committee also announced...
...love scene, and let it go at that. Historical settings would be sketched in by three or four tinkles of a harpsichord. Seeing the movie version of Our Town the other day brought home forcibly to me the tremendous recent advance in the quality of cinema music. Aaron Copland's score seemed to me every bit as impressive as the story itself, and people who heard the score done separately assure me that it is just as moving, though in a different way of course, off the screen as it is on. This should be enough to convince any skeptics...
...hard task confronting the cinema composer, that which Aaron Copland has solved so consummately, is to compose a score which fulfills the requirements of the action and at the same time stands on its own feet as a piece of music and an expression of the composer's self. Most screen scores, even the more recent ones, tend to stick pretty closely to certain standard formulae. To compose music for a comedy especially leaves little leeway for originality, although Prokofieff's comic score to Lieutenant Kije, now recorded as a separate suite, is a masterpiece of its kind. A couple...
...Tanglewood he brought Composers Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith to teach composition; G. Wallace Woodworth, Chairman of Harvard University's Department of Music, for choral instruction; Herbert Graf, Metropolitan Opera Stage Director, to teach opera dramatics; New York Times Music Editor Olin Downes, Composer Roy Harris, and many another to lecture. By last week the month-old centre, with its 300-odd students, had worked its creator up into a well-turned ecstasy. Said Koussevitzky: "How can I speak of something part of myself, so much of my heart, a cherished ideal? It's like my child...
...Aaron Copland: Two Pieces for String Quartet (Dorian Quartet; Columbia). U. S. Modernist Copland, famed recently for his score to the picture Of Mice and Men, experiments, in these early items, like a tired cook in search of an unprecedented sauce, leaves out the meat...