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Music composed by Aaron Copland, 1951-52 Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, will be deleted from the Inaugural Concert, following the efforts of Representative Busbey (R-III.) who charged that Copland has "a long and questionable record of questionable affiliations...
...back into the fold to be guest star. It also commissioned Broadway-famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille to do a new number, Harvest According, and got its own ballet master, Edward Caton, to whip up another, Triptych. It was again scheduling an "American Composers Night," when Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Virgil Thomson would conduct their own ballets...
...example, in 1949-50, Paul Hindemith taught Music 275--The History of Theory. Thornton Wilder gave the second half of Humanities 2 in 1950-51, and last year Aaron Copland taught Music 121--Music in the Twenties...
Before the week was out, 4OO-odd young musicians of the Berkshire Music Center, which shares the well-clipped lawns of Tanglewood with the festival, had also wound up their six-week summer session -studying composition (with Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola), conducting (with Bernstein), and performance (with members of the orchestra). Their big show: Mozart's opera, La Clemenza di Tito, resurrected, rendered into English (and renamed Titus), produced and conducted by the New England Opera Company's Director Boris Goldovsky...
...annual festivals, it helped spread the news (and the international reputations) of such men as Twelve-Ton-ists Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern and Alban Berg, France's Darius Milbaud and Olivier Messiaen, Italy's Luigi Dallapiccola, the U.S.'s Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland...