Word: copland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Porgy is a relic of the first important period in American opera, the '30s-a decade that also saw Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones and Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. Other composers who have tried their hand at native grand opera include William Schuman, Aaron Copland, Douglas Moore, Samuel Barber, Roger Sessions and the prolific Gian Carlo Menotti. But few of their works are frequently heard. The American national opera remains an elusive ideal, and even Porgy, for all its popularity, does not quite qualify...
...Americans bought computers last year, and as many as 6 million are expected to take the plunge this year. Since publishers estimate that new computer owners will buy up to ten books a year, it does not take a computer to recognize the scope of the market. Says Joyce Copland, director of marketing at Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.: "You could probably print napkins with the word computer on them and sell them like crazy...
Elliott Carter: The Early Music (CRI). The cerebral composer has his roots in the folksy American idiom of Ives and Copland, as this disc surprisingly shows. Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman triumphs in Elgar's most restrained major work...
...plentiful, and Henze is active as a conductor of his own music. Last week in Chicago, the composer led the mighty Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program devoted entirely to his works-something that in this country is practically unheard of for any living composer not named Aaron Copland...
...last survivors, along with Copland and Sessions, of an important generation of composers that included Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Douglas Moore, Howard Hanson and Leo Sowerby, Thomson's lasting contributions are likely to be the two operas he wrote with Stein (the second was the 1947 The Mother of Us All) and his criticism. Critic Thomson cheerfully concurs about the operas, at least: "I think I am a good opera composer. There have been some 3,000 performances of The Mother of Us All. It makes you know it is foolproof." No major opera house has yet produced...