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...atonal jazz, a free association of angular and seemingly disjointed sounds that brought curious jazzmen flocking to the club. Many, like Modernist Composer Gunther Schuller, found it "the first realization of all that is merely implicit in the music of Charlie Parker." Leonard Bernstein cried, "Genius!" Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson also came and were conquered. But others shared Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's reaction: "Are you cats serious?" Some even dismissed Coleman's music as "anti-jazz." Coleman said wryly: "I guess it's pretty shocking to hear someone like me. They figure that now they...
...results. Enacting real life in the classroom, he gets grunting students of the twelve-to-15 age range to talk by staging mock employment interviews and playlets that become psychodramas of family problems. Then he makes them write, often by getting them to describe recorded music ranging from Aaron Copland to Jelly Roll Morton. One girl entering Holbrook's class with a reported IQ of 76 turned out a long, sophisticated lovers' dialogue that John O'Hara would have approved...
...Harvard alumni received medals. Others were Detlev W. Bronk, S.D. '53; Aaron Copland, D. Mus. '60; Walt Disney '28 (hon.), M.A. (hon.) '38; T. S. Eliot '10; Walter Lippman '10; Ralph McGill, LL. D. '60; Reinhold Niebuhr, S.T.D. '44; Carl Sandburg, Litt. D. '40; Dr. Helen B. Taussig S.D. '59; and Dr. Paul Dudley White...
This week the Lady will 'arness 'er haitches in Highland Park, 111. (with Ray Milland, who will go on to North Tonawanda, N.Y., Framingham, Mass., Wallingford, Conn., Warwick, R.I.); Gaithersburg, Md. (with Zachary Scott and Joan - daughter of Aaron - Copland, who will also take it to Devon, Pa., West Springfield, Mass., Owings Mills, Md., and Westbury, L.I.); Kansas City (with Michael Allinson, who will play it in Atlanta as well); Corning, N.Y. (with Allyn Ann McLerie and George Gaynes, on a tour that will hit Fayetteville, N.Y., Latham, N.Y., East Rochester, Southfield, Mich., Toronto, Nyack, N.Y., and East...
Great City is not great music, even by Copland's own standards; it is a symphonic expansion of his score for the film Something Wild, and it shows a little too much of his tendencies to ward musical reportage. But when Copland had led the orchestra through the explosions of sound that bring the 20-minute work to its sudden, shouted conclusion, the audience greeted him with a standing ovation. Looking lean and youthful at 63, Copland grinned like...