Word: copland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your mistakes." No, what finally drove Capps out the door was Apple's inability to stay relevant, to reorient itself around the Net. "If Bill Gates could say, 'I was wrong about the Web,' so can you," he told Apple's leaders, urging the company to scrap Copland, its overdue operating system, partner with a Net-savvy computer maker like Sun Microsystems, and "make Apple the Net cruiser of the '90s." They ignored him. So he left. At present he spends two to three hours a day on the Internet and is hatching a plan to use it to create...
ANDRE PREVIN BROUGHT SMILES to the crowd at Symphony Hall last Saturday, guest-conducting an all-American program of Gould, Copland, Schuman and Gershwin. He composes as well, and at the concert it showed: he shaped the music as if it were...
...Copland Clarinet Concerto turned out to be a vehicle for the virtuosity of BSO principal William Hudgins, who danced with ease through the highly syncopated score that gave even Benny Goodman a hard time at its premiere. The first movement of this piece contained the night's best music-making, with Hudgins bringing out broad lines of melody with suavity. At its best, it sounded like an American gymnopedie...
...years ago, in that same place, the crowd was raw, the night was a party, dressed in Windbreakers and jeans and set to the tune of Fleetwood Mac. This year it was a press conference in a blue suit on a red carpet while a canned orchestra sprayed Aaron Copland: "'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free...
...Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday--but that film had an old-Hollywood glow, and Hepburn was unique. The two Tyler movies are anemic, anomic art-house fodder. One comes from the director of The Conformist and The Last Emperor; the other from the guy who is about to make CopLand, the film Sly Stallone hopes will turn him into a certified Actor...