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...Aaron Copland: Piano Fantasy (1957) and Piano Variations (1930). William Masselos, piano. Columbia ML 5568 (monaural) and MS6168 (stereo...
...Aaron Copland has also chosen a dual course. The first recording of his 1957 Piano Fantasy, issued in honor of his 60th birthday last November, shows that his decision has done little violence to his integrity or significance as a composer of absolute music...
...York Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). An all-Copland program...
Says Brooklyn's Aaron Copland of Brooklyn's Roger Sessions: "He writes his music for titans." Mainly for that reason, Composer Sessions, 64, enjoys a doubtful distinction in contemporary music: he is more often seen than heard. To make "the music as well known as the name," Northwestern University and the Fromm Music Foundation last week sponsored the first "retrospective one-man exhibition" of Sessions' works. In three days the audience heard ten compositions-or more than half of Sessions' lifetime output...
...Copland finds that he does his best work after dinner, keeping at it until about 2 a.m. He has no plans for a new opera to follow The Tender Land, the rather limp work premiered in 1954. "Opera," says Copland, "eats up three years of your time; then everything's decided in one night." His work in progress: a chamber piece for nine solo strings. The orchestration was obvious, says Copland, from the moment "I got the material"-and he points gravely to the ceiling, to show that it was a gift from above...