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...COPLAND...
...York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts (CBS, 1-2 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein's last offering for the kids this season: Copland's Second Hurricane...
...classicists. Now, aided by 50 U.S. colleges and universities, it stands as one of the finest overseas representatives of U.S. culture. Among its alumni: Playwright Thornton Wilder, Classicist Robert F. Goheen (see above), Novelists Ralph Ellison and William Styron, Poets Richard Wilbur and John Ciardi, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions...
...turned to face them, ducked his head with a shy smile, the light tilting off his glasses. Then he stepped up on the podium to receive a different kind of ovation from four of the U.S.'s leading practitioners of his own art: Composers Lukas Foss, 37, Aaron Copland, 59, Roger Sessions, 62, Samuel Barber, 49. Seated at four grand pianos, two on each side of the stage, the four were assembled to play Stravinsky's choreographic cantata Les Noces (The Wedding)in ritual homage to the 77-year-old composer they all call their master...
...concert last summer. At first they all practiced individually; Foss, the only professional pianist in the group, worked for "only about five hours," but Sessions, who rarely performs in public, found that he had to "practice very hard." The four rehearsed with Stravinsky only three times. "He was," says Copland, "a little worried about us." But even Stravinsky was delighted with the way the performance went off, gave each composer a silver-framed, inscribed photograph as a memento. Why had the four interrupted their own busy schedules to undertake Les Noces? "Stravinsky," says Lukas Foss simply, "is a composer...