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Many a listener, nerves frayed by the dissonances and the jerky jazzy rhythms he had just heard, sourly agreed. But time has proved audience and conductor wrong. Nobody has ever accused Aaron Copland of murder, even murder of harmony and counterpoint, and this week he reached his soth birthday the most-played and most-honored of living U.S.-born composers. From all over the world, his colleagues were letting him know...
British balletomanes cheered once more for Fancy Free, Pillar of Fire and other modern numbers that Ballet Theatre had presented on its previous visit four years ago. They also found something new to rave about in Agnes de Mille's carefully repolished Rodeo (music by Aaron Copland). An elegant first-night audience got so far into the roughriding spirit of the thing that they obeyed the program notes, beat their hands in time to the "Running Square Dance" sequence...
...lectureship, created in 1928 by the gift of Mrs. H. A. Lamb, has brought to the College such prominent musical figures as Georges Enesco, Bela Bartok, and Aaron Copland in previous years...
...course will be given partly in lectures with discussion groups, headed by assistants, also meeting to help students with the themes they write. Richard P. Wilbur, newly-appointed Briggs Copland Assistant Professor of English Composition, has been named as the first of the assistants in the course...
...commissioning original compositions. The library was also establishing a Serge Koussevitzky Foundation Music Collection, consisting of manuscripts of 35 works commissioned by Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway run of 56 performances...