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...Dean Francis B. Sayre Jr., 61, Woodrow Wilson's grandson and a driving force behind the completion of the cathedral. "Then four days later, as there ought to be, there will be this celebration of our reconciliation." The dedication will include festive music by Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland...
...with his scores for a pair of Department of Agriculture documentaries. The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). Thomson borrowed hymns ("the doxology") and cowboy songs (The Streets of Laredo) and added his own folk-style tunes in The Plow. These two scores were Aaron Copland's inspiration for several famous ballet scores, including Appalachian Spring...
...Stuttgart Ballet. Cranko's tender Romeo and Juliet and rollicking The Taming of the Shrew showed that good ballets can be based on Shakespeare's plays. Hamlet Connotations proves that choreographers can make bad ones as well. Set to a trio of astringent pieces by Aaron Copland, Neumeier's stripped-down, expressionistic dance is simplistically Oedipal: Mother Gertrude seems as much in love with her angst-ridden son as he is with her. The pseudomodern choreography is a pastiche of familiar gambits - with a lot of rolling around on the floor, body contractions and angular flexing...
Music 180 Concert: Students perform Mendelssohn piano trio, Mozart violin sonata, and Copland piano quartet. Paine Hall (Music Building...
This new musical language is marvelous for the expression of horror, desolation, despair, and other standard 20th-century emotions. It is less appropriate for pastoral scenes or nostalgic longing. For the expression of these states, a more conservative, traditional idiom is needed, and Aaron Copland, whose Appalachian Spring was the second work of the concert, is one of the century's great conservatives. Appalachian Spring uses an intentionally accesible idiom which relies on triads and simple melodies mostly drawn from folk-songs to evoke a "pioneer celebration of Spring...