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Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War. By Elizabeth B. Crist. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. [x, 253 p. ISBN 0-19-515157-7. $35.] Index, bibliographical references, music examples, illustrations.
I met Aaron Copland only once, at Tanglewood, 4 July 1974. He had flown in to conduct his "Appalachian Spring," on the first half of a Koussevitsky memorial program on which Leonard Bernstein had been told by his doctor he should conduct "only"(!) the Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony, on the second half. The previous December I had completed Idiots First, an opera begun and left unfinished by Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964), and ...
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