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...wouldn’t prefer to look at Lana Turner? This is not to say that Jeffry photographed only actors and the theater—the show is a nice snapshot of other aspects of culture. Harry Belafonte, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Placido Domingo, Benny Goodman and Aaron Copland (photographed together), Anne Sexton—the list goes on, and the portraits are all agreeable to look upon. Cash, with his guitar jutting out of the page, is an interesting contrast to the placid Belafonte. But it is a juxtaposition that you will have to come to yourself?...
...York Philharmonic at the time. "Mitropoulos really put me on the map when he conducted two pieces of mine in a season, which was unheard of. Next thing I know, I'm getting congratulatory letters from the leading American composers of the day, like Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. I was completely unknown at the time...
...those who prefer their music sans message needn't feel left out. Michael Tilson Thomas, the Great American Conductor, celebrates the centenary of the Great American Composer by leading the San Francisco Symphony in Aaron Copland's electrifying Symphony No. 3 (Sept. 27-28). Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel, the hottest tickets of the post-Pavarotti era, join forces for a gala concert at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House (Oct. 29). Ace countertenor David Daniels, opera's freshest star, makes his triumphant return to the New York City Opera in a new production of Handel's Rinaldo...
...quite accessible to the casual listener, incorporating folk melodies and stirring emotional themes. The peaceful, melancholic Brahms String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1, beautifully demonstrated the quartet's skill at intricate interplay and musical lyricism. The concert concluded with a crowd-pleasing arrangement of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo" for String Quartet, in the year of the 100th anniversary of his birth...
...Igor Stravinsky (1930) This reaffirmation of the glory of God begins in astringent lamentation and ends in radiant certitude. RUNNERS-UP String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel; Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland...