AARON COPLAND 1900–90
Copland was two years younger than George Gershwin and, like him, was from a family of Russian-Lithuanian Jews and brought up in Brooklyn. They even shared the same composition teacher, Rubin Goldmark, for a time. But while Gershwin was making his name as a popular song composer, studying classical...
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| Published in | The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music p. 182 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Yale University Press
04.12.2018
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| Summary: | Copland was two years younger than George Gershwin and, like him, was from a family of Russian-Lithuanian Jews and brought up in Brooklyn. They even shared the same composition teacher, Rubin Goldmark, for a time. But while Gershwin was making his name as a popular song composer, studying classical music on the side, Copland headed for France, the centre of the latest developments in classical music, where he studied for three years with the great Nadia Boulanger (a few years later, she was to refuse to take on Gershwin, on the grounds that her teaching would be no help to |
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| ISBN: | 9780300120691 0300120699 |