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Title: Aaron Copland's America: A Cultural Perspective by Gail Levin, Judith Tick, Heckscher Museum ISBN: 0-8230-0110-5 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Copland Illuminated by his Cultural Context
Comment: This book reproduces the paintings & fills in the story of Aaron Copland's friendships & interactions with the world of the the arts, from his visits to the Brooklyn Museum, Paris, & adventures in New York. A lively & informative review of the show for which the book is a catalogue & interpretive essay, appeared in the New York Times, written by John Russell: [December 22, 2000, Friday] ART REVIEW; Fanfare for Copland, A Fervent Adventurer By JOHN RUSSELL Source: The New York Times Section: Leisure/Weekend Desk [1007 words] Abstract: John Russell reviews Heckscher Museum exhibit illustrating America of composer Aaron Copland. [photo (M)] -------------------------------------------------------------------Lead Paragraph: To walk through ''Aaron Copland's America'' at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, on Long Island, is a considerable adventure. The exhibition is a biographical study of one of the best-loved American composers of the 20th century. But it is much more: a freewheeling, farsearching trawl through an America that, though vital to Copland, was not his only concern...... Born in 1900, Copland lived until near the end of a tumultuous century. He lived more than one of that century's adventures. As a younger American composer, John Adams, said last year, Copland "reached his maturity at the same point that the country was seriously searching for its own cultural identity." He added: "Copland, like Robert Frost and Edward Hopper, found a way of expressing in the most simple and direct language deeply felt intuitions about the American experience." [full review available from NYTimes archive] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I found moving was the way the book shows what kinds of music, art, ideas were exciting people as Copland matured & how he got into the swim, indeed helped to shape it. For me the music becomes more exciting because the book gives it a context & illustrates & evokes the culture in which Copland made his way.
Rating: 3
Summary: Copland is great, the book could be better
Comment: Copland is one of the great american composers. This book makes an effort to capture that perspective in the written word but falls somewhat short. Listen to music for music don't read about it. This book is enjoyable to the huge copland fans who crave everything that has his name on it, but in general is not all to interesting otherwise.
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Title: Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man by Howard Pollack ISBN: 0252069005 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Dangling Man by Saul Bellow ISBN: 0140189351 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory by Constance Reid, Clara Marie Allen, Constance Bowman, Sandra M. Gilbert ISBN: 156098368X Publisher: Smithsonian Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel by Chester Himes ISBN: 1560254459 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: All My Sons: A Drama in 3 Acts by Arthur Miller, C. W. E. Bigsby ISBN: 0141185465 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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