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...great dream. Composers in both Europe and the U.S. soon learned that in Boston, if nowhere else, their music could get a sympathetic hearing. Nearly every program Koussy scheduled included pieces by such contemporary foreign composers as Sibelius, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and such Americans as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, William Schuman and Samuel Barber...
Thomson would have been on stronger ground in citing the absence of contemporary music. Community's 1,000 audiences did not see Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Schoenberg or Britten on any pianist's program. They heard the music of only three contemporary U.S. composers, Morton Gould, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson himself. Fourteen touring symphony orchestras served soothing programs made up mostly of Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Stravinsky cracked a few programs with his Firebird suite...
Unlike its predecessors, "Music Right and Left" leaves the "name" conductors and orchestras pretty much alone: it exhibits more of Thomson the Crusader. One series exhorts various cities to support their respective orchestras, another hurls some stinging invective at movie music (he excepts Aaron Copland's "Red Pony" music), and a third series collects his caustic remarks about the Soviet ban on "bourgeois" music...
...Copland today is one of the most-played of living American-born composers. His 50th birthday last fall was marked by praise from all over the world...
...first won recognition in the 20's for his modern music which emphasized dissonances and jazz rhythms. Copland was the first American composer to win a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1945 he got a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Springs" and last year an Academy Award for his score for "The Heiress...