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...Graham has always used sets and scores of little or unknown artists (such as composer Aaron Copland and architect Isamu Noguchi), who have since become famous, so Sanasardo does in the 1970 piece entitled "Footnotes". The music by Eugene Lester moves from an enveloping gossip to bells chiming and thinking, then thickens again into a closing smog of gossip. This interim airiness and freshness duplicate the playful mood of New York artist Robert Natkin's hinged screens of pink squiggles...
Doyenne of the Kennedys and the undisputed star of the opening night was Rose Kennedy, at 81 looking incredibly youthful, the closest thing to a Queen Mother that the U.S. offers. Glamorously Givenchied, she sat beside Composer Bernstein while Edward Kennedy, Composer Aaron Copland and Washington Mayor Walter Washington provided background. For human interest there was Mrs. Walter Washington in a wheelchair and a hip-high cast, refusing to let a pulled ligament interfere with...
...pieces, though much less doctrinaire than Schoenberg, were probably the least understood and least performed of Stravinsky's whole corpus. Yet like the rest of his work, they were unmistakably Stravinsky, and their quirky unconventionality continued to open fresh byways to other composers. In the words of Aaron Copland: "It is the rightness of his 'wrong' solutions that fascinates one. The notes themselves [seem] surprised at finding themselves situated where they...
...joined the Composers Collective, the first left-wing, musical-political organization in the U. S., whose members included Bertolt Brecht, Hans Eisler, Earl Robinson, Elie Siegmeister and Aaron Copland. Having decided that "the world is divided into the murderers and the murdered," he wanted to show in his work which is which. His life paralleled his writing once too often: he was murdered...
Lest I seem to be an aging reactionary, let me assure you that I have no hatred for the new music. I suspect that the trouble is not in the music, but in the composer. Writing in the New York Times recently, Aaron Copland observed that too many contemporary composers use the university as their base, and consequently, the music they produce is refined and scholarly, yet almost unfit for human consumption, except for those who believe that music should be seen and not heard. Coplan cites Foss, with his long connection with UCLA, and now Harvard...