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Some of the best-known contemporary U.S. composers-Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitzstein, Virgil Thomson-are tied to a woman's apron strings. The woman: their sometime teacher, Nadia Boulanger, for years head of the American Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra (as a guest in 1938), and the world's most renowned teacher of composition...
First of the series of evening stage presentations was Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera "The Consul," given four times. Menotti's best work, though musically uneven, it ranks with Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and Copland's "The Tender Land" as one of the three finest operas to come out of this country. "The Consul" demonstrates an unerring sense of theatre in its almost unrelievedly anguished tale of Magda Sorel's attempt to get out of a bureaucratic country crawling with secret police, and its tragic results--a timely story in view of recent events in Hungary...
...rhythmic invention, its virility, its brilliance of orchestration, the work is among the most dazzling music Stravinsky has ever written. It has some of the down-to-earth excitement of The Rite of Spring, the buoyancy of The Wedding. It proves once again, in the words of Composer Aaron Copland, that "only Stravinsky [writes so] that no one can predict just where he will be taking us next...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Leonard Bernstein conducts works by Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and himself...
...Copland said that the public ought to be interested in living composers, "because each one contributes something unique and vital, which not even such exalted figures as Beethoven or Sibelius could duplicate...