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...Aaron Copland deplored the existence of so much "ancestor worship" among modern music-lovers. He said that the public's desire for "certified" masterpieces in music is a sign of cultural immaturity and a phenomenon not found in other arts, like the legitimate theatre. "Those who want only masterworks," he stated, "wouldn't know the best music if they heard...
Composer Aaron Copland, Otto Luening, professor of Music at Columbia, and Irving Fine, professor of Music at Brandeis will discuss "The Contemporary Composer and His Public" at the Law School Forum tonight at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...
...scholar. Besides a possibly finer sensitivity to human problems which the mature artist attains through the creative experience, he offers the student a conception of the pertinence of art as well as of the possibility of using knowledge creatively and not merely passively. If such men as Aaron Copland, W. H. Auden, William Faulkner, and Arthur Miller could be encouraged to spend a year at Harvard, delivering lectures, or running a course if they wish, they would be a stimulating addition to the College...
Last week the weekly trade magazine The Billboard front-paged some corroborating statistics. Three major labels, Columbia, Mercury and MGM, devoted the largest part of their summer releases to modern works, e.g., Aaron Copland's Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, Elliott Carter's The Minotaur. With several other companies contributing, 50 contemporary compositions were released this summer. This brings the impressive total of 20th century compositions on records to some 1,500, with about 240 composers represented. By comparison, there are only 776 works represented by 48 composers of the first half of the 19th century...
...donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Stephen Vincent Benet...