Word: copland
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...those days," Aaron Copland once said of his early studies, "music was like the inside of a great building that shut out the street noises." Later Copland was to do more than any other composer of his generation to open the doors of the concert hall to the noises of American life. He is the most played of U.S.-born composers and the most eloquent advocate of modern American music...
...realized that everything was completely under control again. Professor Piston's work of 1956 was originally commissioned by the Louisville Symphony and received a fittingly excellent performance at its East Coast premiere last night. After being delighted by its boyish allegro--which has more than a bit of Copland to it--and its sensuous slow movement, I cannot quite understand the reticence of other orchestras to take up the short, light work. Everything that was first rate about the Bach Society's handling of the other pieces on the program was evident here in even greater abundance. Their marvellous tone...
...Leningrad orchestra, it was the hit of London, which has no first-rate symphony of its own. The oldest orchestra in Russia, it is also Russia's best. Under Conductor Eugene Mravinsky, 57, the orchestra plays a generous number of modern works by composers like Hindemith, Stravinsky, Britten, Copland. In London it played mostly Russian works-although it learned Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra in two rehearsals, as the inevitable Soviet good-will gesture...
...Khrushchev's wife and youngest daughter watched from a box of the Stanislavsky Theater, Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn glided through the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake. The troupe also leapt and lassoed its way through the Aaron Copland and Agnes de Mille ballet Rodeo and George Balanchine's abstract Theme and Variations, set to Tchaikovsky music. The Russians admired Tallchief and Bruhn, were politely confused by the unclassic vigor of the American originals, but clapped the entire company back for six curtain calls after their debut...
...American and by an orchestra not resident in the U.S. Akeo Watanabe, 41-year-old conductor of the Japan Philharmonic, is his nation's most gifted interpreter of modern scores; for Composers Recordings, Inc. he has now conducted eight modern American works by composers ranging from Aaron Copland to Halsey Stevens, giving them deft and assured readings...