Word: copland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aaron Copland, a tall, stooped, rather ingenuous man with greying wispy hair and the trace of a Brooklyn accent, has never had a steady job. He has drifted around from Tel Aviv to Hollywood, varying his work for each different audience, and in the process contributing probably more to contemporary music than any other living composer...
...only thing Copland has been forced to bear with is the twentieth century. "You're stuck with your period, just as with your family," he says, not unhappily. "A period would have to be pretty grim not to find something in it worth composing." This fidelity to his own time is undoubtedly the reason for Copland's extraordinary influence on modern music. The dean of American composers has severed his ties with the romanticists; he writes his music to reflect the outside world rather than to rework the feelings of a past age. "You don't pick the music...
...inaugural programs last Saturday and Sunday the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council received plaudits for its latest project. James B. Conant, President of Harvard, called it "the composite voice of a whole education community, a sum of educational parts." Aaron Copland, Charles Elliott Norton Professor of Poetry, said he considers it "the bright new hope of American radio...
...mean to be chauvinistic," Copland said, speaking from Symphony Hall over WGBH, "but a non-commercial station has a unique opportunity for bold programming." He suggested that is concentrate its music programming on contemporary works...
...State Department's John Carter Vincent, and underneath runs the stinging indictment: "From China to Switzerland to North Africa." At the top of another page is a string of photos labeled "Dear to the Hearts of Left-wingers are these controversial figures." Here we find composer Aaron Copland, "recently appointed to a choice chair at Harvard"--and Owen Lattimore, "stung by accusations, he wrote a whimpering lament." The editors of "American Legion" add that this article "Makes the Harvards look ingenuous." It may at that, but only by comparison...