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...Societe Musicale Independante de Paris presented a concert of chamber music by students of Boulanger. In retrospect, the collection of names on the program is a bit fantastic: Copland, Thomson, Elwell, Antheil, Chanler, Piston (whom Time incidentally, then labelled a "rip-roaring cacaphonist...
There a young Harvard student named Aaron Copland knocked on the door and was admitted. In a book published on his sixtieth birthday, he recollects: "In my own mind she was a continuing link in that long tradition of the French intellectual woman. . . . Nadia Boulanger had her own salon where musical aesthetics were argued and the musical future engendered." Other Harvard students came--Walter Piston and Randall Thomson. For talk there were Satie, Cocteau, and Stravinsky. Copland recalls that Mlle. Boulanger "was particularly intrigued by new musical developments. . . . Nothing under the head- ing of music could possibly be thought...
...voice, she began with O del mio dolce ardor, by Gluck, went on to Quella fiamma che m'accende, by Benedetto Marcello, Ständchen and Zueignung, by Richard Strauss. Invitation au Voyage and Le Manoir de Rosamonde, by Henri du Pare, Boatmen's Dance, by Aaron Copland. Out in the Fields with God, by William Dawson...
...Hell's Kitchen have they been blown up till they look like taxicabs with wings? But in general he contrives with careful empathy to see the city as the heroine sees it, to suggest the horror in the eye of the beholder. What's more, Composer Aaron Copland has written some graceful background music, and the three principals do as well as anybody could with the script in hand. As to the script, Actress Dunnock has the last word in the last scene of the film. "What," she inquires in a blank confusion that her audience will wholly...
...century: it might almost have been a concert led by Haydn at the court of the Esterhazys or a command performance by C.P.E. Bach for Frederick the Great. The assemblage of 153 guests was celebrated and varied. Not a single blue-ribbon American composer of serious music, from Aaron Copland to Alan Hovhannes, was missing from the guest list. The nation's leading conductors -Bernstein, Ormandy, Stokowski-were represented in white tie and tails, and all of the major music critics of New York and Washington were eagerly present. Said one: "The composers acted and talked like poor country...