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...them, and in 1949 collected a Pulitzer Prize for one, Louisiana Story. As music critic of the New York Herald Tribune from 1940 to 1954, he skewered arrogance and stupidity in the musical establishment with a perceptive gusto unknown since the critical heyday of George Bernard Shaw. Composer Aaron Copland, his contemporary, calls him "about as original a personality as America can boast." This week, in what is far from the least of his accomplishments, Virgil Thomson turns a hale and peppery...
CLASSICAL: Faith Esham, soprano; music of Poulenc, Brahms and Copland; Kresge Auditorium; Sunday...
...Rabaud, Pierre Monteux and, most important, Serge Koussevitzky. During his 25-year reign-from 1924 to 1949-Koussevitzky. During his 25-year reign-from 1924 to 1949 - Koussevitzky presented 125 world premieres, aggressively supporting American music and taking a whole generation of composers, including such disparate figures as Aaron Copland and Howard Hanson, under his wing. Continuing this tradition, the B.S.O. is celebrating its birthday by commissioning twelve new works from leading international composers; after all, this is the orchestra responsible for such masterpieces as Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms...
...collage of favorite American movies ("We may be rats, we may be crooked, we may be murderers, but we're Americans, Joe!"), before the first act we have movie credits ("Starring Robert Redford as George Washington, Sir Laurence Olivier as General Burgoyne," etc., all to the strains of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man"), and we have a delightful second-act coda with Thomas Derrah delivering a voice-over of a soldier's death for a sequence of the movie. This helps to lessen the play's claim to seriousness and lets it stand as glorified burlesque. Kustow...
...anyone, is the applied art of big risk and big feelings. The songs he and Paul McCartney wrote for the Beatles, separately and together, brought more people up against the joy and boldness of rock music than anything else ever has. It wasn't just that Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein were taking the Beatles as seriously-and a good deal more affectionately-than Stockhausen. The worldwide appeal of the Beatles had to do with their perceived innocence, their restless idealism that stayed a step...