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...Aaron Copland, noted American composer and Dr. William Berrien, one of the leaders in the development, of Latin-American teaching methods, have been appointed to the Harvard Faculty. Copland will begin his duties in the spring term as Visiting Lecturer on Music, while Dr. Berrien will be professor of Romance languages and Literatures after July...
...Copland will deliver five public lectures on modern music under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund, established in 1928 to bring eminent musicians to Harvard. Copland has been a noted composer since 1924, chiefly of symphonies, concertos, and chamber music. He has written scores for several motion pictures, including "Of Mice and Men," "Our Town," and "North Star." He is president of the American Composers Alliance, director of the International Society for Contemporary Music, director of the League of Composers, and director of the American Music Center...
Busy on The Seventh Cross and assigned to 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Tracy hopes to quit pictures as soon as possible. He wants to do war work and nothing else, preferably overseas. He has on hand a piece of music and narration by Aaron Copland, called Lincoln Portrait, which he would like to do for soldiers in contrast to the always welcome-but never varied-song, dance and horseplay. "Get a little serious with them," he says, "and I think they'll like...
When the critics made up their minds, they had ruled out Roy Harris' "agricultural" Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8), Aaron Copland's melodramatic Lincoln Portrait, William Schuman's timely but tiresome Prayer-1943, Morton Gould's featherweight Spirituals for String, Choir and Orchestra. The award went to Manhattan-born Paul Creston, 36, for his neat, rather brittle, and relatively old-fashioned First Symphony...
Friday Evening, May 28 Overture: Poet and Peasantvon Suppe Suite from "Rodeo" Copland Warsaw Concerto Addinsell (Piano: Leo Litwin) Brazil Barroso Saturday Evening, May 29 Overture: "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Concerto in F Gershwin (Piano: Jesus Maria Sanroma) Suite from Ballet: "Sylvia" Delibes Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saons "On the Trail," from Grand Canyon Suite Grofe Sunday Evening, May 30 No concert