Word: copland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orchestra's excellence is unquestioned. In his programming he has been criticized for catering, as one critic put it privately, to "the dowager taste, to the Main Line bluebloods who put up the dough." He himself concedes: "I should have done more new works-the late Stravinsky, Copland, the whole contemporary group." His predecessor, the flamboyant Leopold Stokowski, made a specialty of such works. But, says Ormandy, he got away with it because "the women were crazy about him. I am not so handsome...
...University of Arizona started performing heart transplants ten months ago with a minimal capital investment and has not had to divert its resources to the operation, Dr. Jack G. Copland, associate professor of surgery at U. of Arizona, said...
...Copland said the MGH decision would discourage smaller institutions from performing the operation, which costs about...
...radio's Chesterfield Hour. After making the program a hit, he added to his celebrity by marrying Opera Diva Lily Pons in 1938 (they divorced in 1958) and by cutting more than 200 discs with Columbia (life time record sales: 52 million). He commissioned works by Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and other Americans that became repertory standards. And while he would outrage purists by making a medley of a Tchaikovsky movement and a pop tune, "Kosty" had his reasons: "Criticism is upsetting, but if what I do expands the meaning of music in terms of attendance, that...