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...Krzystof Penderecki, who is doing an opera based on Milton's Paradise Lost for Chicago's Lyric Opera. Right now there are several hundred American composers, some working up to 20 hours a day on music commissioned during and for the Bicentennial. The big names, like Aaron Copland, have been forced to turn down requests by the dozen. With millions available in grants and more money to come, the Bicentennial is the biggest bonanza for the American composer since Hollywood discovered the musical...
...lies behind a century of serious philology, but it is not an idea with any scientific foundation--linguists believe the dozen or so major language families to be unrelated. Still, it reminds Bernstein of a discovery he made when he was an undergraduate: the first four notes of Aaron Copland's Piano Variations rearranged and transposed in various ways turn up in all kinds of music, both Western and non-Western. A four note tune may seem to be a weak and superficial thread with which to bind music of different cultures, but it's the kind of thread Bernstein...
...Swanee River in the key of E-flat while Dad accompanied in the key of C. Small wonder that Charles the composer would go on to use polytonality and polyrhythms long before those techniques emerged in the works of Stravinsky and other 20th century musical giants. As Composer Aaron Copland puts it in his preface to the Perlis book: "No one before him had ever ventured so close to setting down on paper sheer musical chaos. The marvel is that he got away with...
That Ives could have written his major works without hearing them or having an audience is a sad kind of life-accommodation for a composer. It also makes Ives, in Copland's words, "a very American phenomenon." In the U.S. today, any number of composers write without sufficient public contact, some even adopting a "who cares" attitude...
...fastest-selling rock albums in the U.S. nowadays is a three-LP set by a British group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It includes mod versions of Aaron Copland's Hoedown, a movement from Alberto Ginastera's First Piano Concerto and even Sir Charles Parry's great old Anglican choral song Jerusalem. Also rising on the charts is an LP by a Dutch group called Focus that sounds at times like a combo of English madrigalists. In Detroit this week, English Rock Star Rick Wakeman begins a month-long U.S. tour featuring some unusual sidemen: Classical Conductor David Measham...