Aaron Copland and His World

528 Pages·2005·113.061 MB·English

by  Judith Tick, Carol J. Oja

AARON COPLAND AND HIS WORLD
OTHER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS VOLUMES
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AARON COPLAND
AND HIS WORLD
EDITED BY CAROL J. OJA AND JUDITH TICK
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
Copyright © 2005 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
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For permissions information, see page xii.
Library of Congress Control Number 2005927155
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12470-4 (paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-691-12470-1 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12469-8 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0-691-12469-8 (cloth)
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This publication has been produced by the Bard College Publications Office:
Ginger Shore, Director
Francie Soosman, Cover design
Natalie Kelly, Design
Text edited by Paul De Angelis and Erin Clermont
Music typeset by Don Giller
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To Vivian Fine, composer,
and Minna Lederman, editor, music
journalist, and cultural activist—
two women of modern music
who brought the editors close to
Copland's world

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Permissions xii
Between Memory and History: An Introduction XV
CAROL J. OJA AND JUDITH TICK
PART I
SCANNING A LIFE
Copland and the Prophetic Voice 1
HOWARD POLLACK
Founding Sons: Copland, Sessions, and Berger
on Genealogy and Hybridity 15
MARTIN BRODY
PART II
COPLAND'S GREATER CULTURAL WORLD
"To Become as Human as Possible": The Influence of
André Gide on Aaron Copland 47
PAUL ANDERSON
Copland and American Populism in the 1930s 81
MORRIS DICKSTEIN
From the New York Avant-Garde to Mexican Modernists:
Aaron Copland and the Visual Arts 101
GAIL LEVIN
Making an American Dance: Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and
Appalachian Spring 121
LYNN GARAFOLA
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CONTENTS
PART III
COPLAND'S INNER CIRCLE
Dear Aaron, Dear Lenny: A Friendship in Letters 151
VIVIAN PERLIS
Aaron Copland and Arthur Berger in Correspondence 179
EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY WAYNE D. SHIRLEY
PART IV
ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES
War Drums, Tolling Bells, and Copland's Piano Sonata 233
LARRY STARR
Copland's Gift to be Simple Within the Cumulative Mosaic
Complexities of His Ballets 255
ELLIOTT ANTO KO LETZ
PART V
POLITICAL EDGES
Copland and the Politics of Americanism 277
ELIZABETH B. CRIST
From Orient to Occident: Aaron Copland and the
Sagas of the Prairie 307
BETH E. LEVY
Aaron Copland, Norman Rockwell, and the
"Four Freedoms": The Office of War Information's
Vision and Sound in The Cummington Story (1945) 351
NEIL LERNER
Aaron Copland Meets the Soviet Composers: A Television Special 379
TRANSCRIBED AND INTRODUCED BY EMILY ABRAMS
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Contents
PART VI
COPLAND AND HIS PUBLIC
Aaron Copland and the Composers' Forum-Laboratory:
A Post-Concert Discussion, February 24, 1937 395
TRANSCRIBED AND INTRODUCED BY MELISSA DE GRAAF
Copland on Television: An Annotated List of Interviews
and Documentaries 413
COMPILED BY EMILY ABRAMS
PART VII
RECONFIGURING COPLAND'S WORLD
439
Copland Reconfigured
LEON BOTSTEIN
Index 487
Notes on Contributors 499
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