Word: copland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SONGS OF AMERICA (Nonesuch). From Foster and Ives to Copland and Carter, a tour de force by mezzo Jan DeGaetani and pianist Gilbert Kalish...
...orchestra performed three pieces: Aaron Copland's "An Outdoor Overture," Gabriel Faure's "Pelleas et Melisande suite, op. 60" and Edvard Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A Minor, op. 16." Vosgerchian, who is also the Naumburg Professor of Music, was featured as piano soloist in the final piece...
...Rachmaninoff and Stokowski, all before his 30th birthday. He was planning further classical compositions when he died of a brain tumor at the age of 38 in 1937. Would Gershwin's later music have made its way into the standard American repertory along with the works of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber? Or would he have been considered an overreacher whose notes never quite shook off the reverberations of Tin Pan Alley...
...close in time to assess Bernstein's compositions accurately. His music's eclecticism and its peculiarly American-sounding angst are qualities that have endeared Bernstein to his listening public and alienated him from his critics. Bernstein, along with Aaron Copland, is the most performed contemporary American composer...
...children, here is his involvement in classical music's homosexual subculture. Bernstein's predilections have never been secret in the | gossipy music world. But those who were surprised at the disclosure that Rock Hudson was gay will no doubt be shocked by Peyser's identification of Bernstein, Composer Aaron Copland, the late Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos and others as homosexuals...