Word: copland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Aaron Copland, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will discuss "The Sonorous Image" at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Sanders Theatre. The talk will be the second in Copland's series on "Music and Imaginative Mind...
...last Thursday demonstrated again that there is a group of enthusiastic, intelligent young musicians in the University community who like to play and who fear nothing. The performances, although uneven, were definitely higher than the usual student level, and there were moments of real brilliance. Russell Stanger and Aaron Copland shared the conductor's duties, an innovation which was not totally successful...
...Aaron Copland is a much better composer than conductor. On the podium he seemed awkward and uncertain, and I don't know how the orchestra was ever able to follow his obscure beat. But his music, fresh and invigorating, gave ample proof that he is one of the five or six really significant composers in the United States today. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Copland concerns himself with melodies per se; his compositions usually contain several good tunes, but not much depth of feeling...
...Outdoor Overture," written in 1938 for New York's High School of Music and Arts, is about four minutes too long. The middle section lags considerably, and perhaps Mr. Copland will someday see fit to tighten up this otherwise intriguing composition. The orchestra, for the most part, did full justice to the music. Only the brass section, no longer bolstered by Conservatory students, seemed rather weak; it frequently played too loud, and was not always...
...Copland also said: "The classics have been used to snuff out all liveliness . . . and to set up a religion of music . . . while the public has been afraid to invest in anything not bearing the label of a masterwork...