Word: copland
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...System 7.5. The last major overhaul of the Macintosh operating system--System 7.0, which laid the groundwork for the current version--was late when it was delivered more than five years ago and even then just barely met expectations. The next major overhaul of the Macintosh system, code-named Copland, is due later this year. But many industry experts aren't sure if Apple will be able to deliver the revision on time or even if it will make a big difference when it does...
...such as Afternoon of a Black Faun and Jazz Concerto in D Major for Combo and Orchestra--she certainly wore her influences on her record sleeve--deserve a place in musical history alongside such crossover classics as Gershwin's Concerto in F, Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto and Aaron Copland's clarinet concerto. "Dana Suesse was a marvelous pianist," says Mintun, who wrote the liner notes for Pearl's Suesse album. "Her piano solos painted vivid tonal pictures of exciting urban life. You hear little hints of Debussy or Ravel in her work, yet you also hear the elements...
...that in a world in which marketing is queen, it behooves even serious musicians to put all their assets front and center. "The more we can try to appeal to broader audiences the better," says the highly accomplished Bachmann, whose latest album, Kiss on Wood, offers music by Aaron Copland and Alfred Schnittke--as well as a come-hither album back cover featuring (by classical music's standards) some generous cleavage. "Let's face it, people go into record stores and a lot of times buy recordings on the basis of what they see on the cover," says Bachmann...
Evans spent six weeks in the Western U.S., tooling around in a rental car listening to tapes of Aaron Copland suites and Neil Young's Unplugged, interviewing Zen-like animal healers and watching degrading horse exorcisms. Because of his career troubles, Evans recalls, "I was vulnerable and moved by everything...
...scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia gave Rorem entry into the company of the other wunderkinder and their mentors who, from the 1940s on, would do much to define what serious American music was all about: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein, Lukas Foss, Samuel Barber, John Cage. Rorem's feelings of admiration, doubt, jealousy and gratefulness for these figures inspire the sharpest sketches in a book crammed with sharp sketches. On two composers who straddled the concert stage and Broadway: "Lenny Bernstein would never have been quite what he was without the firm example...