Copland
Subtitle: 1900 through 1943
By: by Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis.
Contributors: Perlis, Vivian.
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: St. Martin's/Marek
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Copyright date: 1984 by Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis
Subjects: Copland, Aaron, 1900-; Composers -- United States -- Biography
Description: America knows Aaron Copland as our greatest composer, famous for *Appalachian Spring*, *Billy the Kid*, *Lincoln Portrait*, *Rodeo*; the movie scores for *Our Town* and *Of Mice and Men*; and numerous orchestral and chamber works. This book takes us from Copland’s Brooklyn childhood, through his years in Paris studying with the legendary Nadia Boulanger, then his return to America, his early championship of American music, his first successes in Mexico, Hollywood, and as composer of some of the most popular ballets ever produced, and eventually his arrival at Tanglewood. This is *not* a book about music; it is a book about a genius’ life *in* music, and its cast of characters, among them Harold Clurman and Clifford Odets, encompasses the elite of *all* the arts. Vivian Perlis, who has written connecting “interludes” placing the autobiography in its historical context, has obtained recollections by leading figures in Copland’s life (such as Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, and Boulanger) that make up a good part of the text; thus we have their own impressions of the man as well as his impressions of them. Add to all this over a hundred never-before-published photographs, letters, and scores from Copland’s collection, and it is easy to see why *Copland* is one of the monumental autobiographies of our time.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [373]-389.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A NOTE TO THE READER
pagenum: ix; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
pagenum: xi; title: INTRODUCTION/THE MITTENTHALS AND THE COPLANDS
pagenum: 1; title: Brooklyn/1900–1921
pagenum: 13; title: Fontainebleau/Summer 1921
pagenum: 39; title: Paris/1921–1924
pagenum: 53; title: INTERLUDE I
pagenum: 93; title: New York/1924–1926
pagenum: 99; title: INTERLUDE II
pagenum: 135; title: Music for Musicians/1928–1930
pagenum: 151; title: Yaddo and Mexico/1930–1932
pagenum: 175; title: INTERLUDE III
pagenum: 217; title: Music for the People/1934–1937
pagenum: 231; title: Music for Use/1937–1939
pagenum: 273; title: Hollywood/1939–1940
pagenum: 295; title: INTERLUDE IV
pagenum: 305; title: The Early War Years/1941–1942
pagenum: 321; title: NOTES
pagenum: 373; title: INDEX
pagenum: 390