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...Opera would not produce and do them well? Manhattan Maecenas Lincoln Kirstein held the second view and, as managing director of the entire New York City Center (opera, ballet, theater), tried to make it work. Through a $200,000 Rockefeller grant, he helped commission such modern operas as Aaron Copland's The Tender Land and the daring stage designs for Von Einem's The Trial, revived such confections as Rossini's Cenerentola. The Center was losing some $100,000 a year, but Kirstein often helped with money fromhis own pocket...
...League of Composers has coaxed such patrons as Richard Rodgers and Irving Berlin to ante up for new music, arranged commissions of many diverse items, e.g., Copland's bright Music for the Theatre (1925) and Leon Kirchner's almost atonal Sinfonia in Two Parts...
...found with their spools of recording tape." ¶ Film music, with no listing in Grove IV, gets 16 pages documenting the art from its early catch-all scores (catalogued as The Slimy Viper, Gruesome Misterioso, Love's Response, etc.) to background music by such recognized modern composers as Copland, Honegger and Prokofiev, with learned descriptions of how music is photographed on film and a running account of how a film composer operates...
Last year's lecture series was given by Sir Herbert Read on the general topic "Art and the Development of Human Consciousness." Other recent lecturers have included Aaron Copland, Thornton Wilder, and E. E. Cummings...
...Copland was Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard...