Word: copland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copland's Piano Variations (1930) constitute a landmark in the output of our country's foremost composer. In fact, the work is a milestone in the whole course of 20th-century pianism (some would say "millstone," and it drove two ladies in the front row to a hasty retreat). It is admittedly repellent on first hearing; and I subjected myself to it only in fits of masochism for several years before I began to fathom its great stature. Its granitic, clangorous, uncompromising dissonances take getting used to; but the piece is more than worth the effort...
...skirted a crowd of 12,000, pulled up behind a huge green-and-white-striped umbrella tent and a blue-draped speakers' platform. Beneath the great tent: the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Leonard Bernstein rapped his baton and signaled the spirit of the day with Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. A rousing Hail to the Chief brought on the President himself, and then the full-throated Star-Spangled Banner. After a few other musical offerings (Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, Baritone Leonard Warren), the President got up to speak. The music, he quipped, raised...
...provide Asian audiences with a rare sample of contemporary U.S. music, Conductor Scherman performed works by Wallingford Riegger, Virgil Thomson, Frederick Jacobi, Aaron Copland, discovered that they were just as warmly received as the repertory regulars-Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart...
...quite a few entirely on his own, including It's Always Fair Weather and Bad Day at Black Rock. By "cheating every minute," he has managed to turn out a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. As a concert pianist, he admires the moderns-Copland, Barber. Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok-but he has also recorded all the four-hand piano music of Mozart, with his good friend Composer Lukas Foss. His jazz manner is all his own: a fanciful, highly individualistic style, characterized by kaleidoscopic rhythmic shifts, trip-hammered treble runs and a discreetly swinging left...
...Corelli: Concerto, Op. 6, #8 in G major; Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Ravel: Trio in A Minor; Brahms: Seranade #2 in A Major; Mozart: Quintet in G Minor; Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra...