Word: aaron
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...Composer Aaron Copland, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will discuss "The Sonorous Image" at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Sanders Theatre. The talk will be the second in Copland's series on "Music and Imaginative Mind...
...concert last Thursday demonstrated again that there is a group of enthusiastic, intelligent young musicians in the University community who like to play and who fear nothing. The performances, although uneven, were definitely higher than the usual student level, and there were moments of real brilliance. Russell Stanger and Aaron Copland shared the conductor's duties, an innovation which was not totally successful...
...work which an orchestra cannot get across to the listener unless it plays with precision and delicacy. Heaviness in the string section and poor balance between soloists and orchestra resulted in a performance of this masterpiece that sagged badly at times. The soloists, however, did an excellent job, and Aaron Johnson's clean, rich clarinet tone was outstanding. Russell Stanger, beginning his second season with the orchestra, conducted the work in the first two movements as if it were by Richard Strauss. Only in the last movement did conductor, orchestra, and soloists loosen up enough to capture some...
...Aaron Copland is a much better composer than conductor. On the podium he seemed awkward and uncertain, and I don't know how the orchestra was ever able to follow his obscure beat. But his music, fresh and invigorating, gave ample proof that he is one of the five or six really significant composers in the United States today. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Copland concerns himself with melodies per se; his compositions usually contain several good tunes, but not much depth of feeling...
...concert halls have been turned into museums for the old masters," commented Aaron Copland, Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, in Sanders Theatre last night. Copland gave the first of his lectures on "Music and the Imaginative Mind." He was introduced by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. The talk was followed by a short concert program...