Word: copland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Nadia Boulanger, 92, Mademoiselle le Professeur to three generations of composers, including America's Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and Roger Sessions; in Paris. Though a promising composer, she taught indefatigably for five decades and had great influence on such American-born artists as Classicist Roy Harris and Experimentalist Philip Glass. She was also the first woman to conduct London's Royal Philharmonic, New York's Philharmonic and the Philadelphia and Boston symphony orchestras...
...chain with 62 gold peanut pendants from Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy. All of the gifts were turned over to the Government, with five exceptions; a Norman Rockwell book from the Boy Scouts of America, a limited edition of Poet James Dickey's tribute to Composer Aaron Copland, two Cherokee Indian clay pots, 600 to 800 years old, and two brass barometers, one from Kiwanis International and the other from the Naval Academy's class of 1978. In such stormy times, keeping two barometers is surely justifiable...
...with the sinuous rhythms of Latin America, and produced piano works as fresh and insouciant as their titles were evocative: The Banjo, Bamboula, Souvenir de Porto Rico. On the strength of them, he stands as the precursor to the great line of American nationalists from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland. More's the pity, then, that when last week's program ran long, List modestly cut his sequence of three Gottschalk solo pieces...
...occasion requires, the ranks break apart like a set of Chinese boxes. In the course of two recent concerts at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-one devoted to the music of Aaron Copland, the other to works by Joseph and Michael Haydn-they subdivided into such combinations as a piano with string trio and a 13-piece mixed ensemble, besides playing at full strength...
...Kircher Copland--Lisa Goldman, Piano Dunster House Library...