| Contents |
Between memory and history: an introduction / Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick -- Part I. Scanning a life. Copland and the prophetic voice / Howard Pollack -- Founding sons: Copland, Sessions, and Berger on genealogy and hybridity / Martin Brody -- Part II. Copland's greater cultural world. "To become as human as possible": the influence of Andre Gide on Aaron Copland / Paul Anderson -- Copland and American populism in the 1930s / Morris Dickstein -- From the New York avant-garde to Mexican modernists: Aaron Copland and the visual arts / Gail Levin -- Making an American dance: Billy the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring / Lynn Garafola -- Part III. Copland's inner circle. Dear Aaron, dear Lenny: a friendship in letters / Vivian Perlis -- Aaron Copland and Arthur Berger in correspondence / edited and introduced by Wayne D. Shirley -- Part IV. Analytic perspectives. War drums, tolling bells, and Copland's piano sonata / Larry Starr -- Copland's gift to be simple within the cumulative mosaic complexities of his ballets / Elliott Antokoletz -- Part V. Political edges. Copland and the politics of Americanism / Elizabeth B. Crist -- From Orient to occident: Aaron Copland and the sagas of the prairie / 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) / Neil Lerner -- Aaron Copland Meets the Soviet Composers: a television special / transcribed and introduced by Emily Abrams -- Part VI. Copland and the composers' forum-laboratory: a post-concert discussion, February 24, 1937 / transcribed and introduced by Melissa de Graaf -- Copland on television: an annotated list of interviews and documentaries / compiled by Emily Abrams -- Part VII. Reconfiguring Copland's world. Copland reconfigured / Leon Botstein. |
