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Composer Aaron Copland will hold the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry next year, it was learned yesterday. It is not known whether the appointment has yet received final Corporation and Overseer approval...
...Copland will fill the post for one year, delivering six or more public lectures. He is also expected to give at least one course in the Music Department, although his selection occurred so recently that no final decision has yet been reached...
Currently in Rome as a composer in residence at the American Academy, Copland will succeed playwright Thornton Wilder in the post. Two other composers, Paul Hindemith and Igor Strvinsky have held the position in recent years...
Members of the Music Department did not know yesterday whether Copland, who is unmarried, would live in one of the Houses while at the University; Wilder is currently living in Dunster...
...Manhattan's WNEW. Having tucked away some of his heyday earnings, Benny has also become a patron of long-haired composers. Early this month, playing with the NBC Symphony, he gave the first performance of the new Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra that he commissioned from Aaron Copland...