Aaron Copland

Richard Kostelanetz has edited over 40 collections of essays on American culture, ranging in subject matter from avant-garde fiction to collections of critical writings on John Cage and Frank Zappa. He is also a published critic, writer, and artist.

Preface -- Composer from Brooklyn -- An Autobiographical Sketch (1939,1968) -- Editor s Introduction xxxiii -- I MUSICAL EXPERIENCE -- How We Listen (1939) -- Musical Structure (1939) -- Tone Color (1939) -- Music and the Hum an Spirit (1954) -- II THE LIFE OF MUSIC -- The American Composer Gets a Break (1935) -- Music Between the Wars (1918-1939) (1941,1968) -- Musical Imagination in the Americas (1952) -- Jazz Structure and Influence (1927) -- Workers Sing! (1934) -- Letter on Varese and the League of Composers (1972) -- Opera and Music Drama (1939) -- Tip to Moviegoers: Take Off Those Ear-Muffs (1949) -- Second Thoughts on Hollywood (1940) -- Composer’s Report on Music in South America (1947) -- Festival in Caracas (1954) -- III THE MUSICIAN’S LIFE -- A Note on Young Composers (1935) -- Effect of the Cold War on the Artist in the U. S. (1949) -- Introducing Shostakovitch at Dinner (1949) -- W hen Private and Public Worlds Meet (1968) -- Is the University Too Much W ith Us? (1970) -- Tanglewood’sFuture (1952) -- From the ’20s to the ’40s and Beyond (1945) -- IV PRECURSORS -- Defends the Music of Mahler (1925) -- The Ives Case (1933,1941,1967) -- Schoenbergs Expressionism (1941,1967) -- Stravinsky’s Dynamism (1941,1967) -- Bela Bartok (1941,1967) -- V CONTEMPORARIES -- The Younger Generation of American Composers: 1926-59(1960) -- America’s Young Men of Music (1960) -- George Antheil (1925) -- Darius M ilhaud (1929) -- Virgil Thom son and Marc Blitzstein (1940,1968) -- Carlos Chavez (1928,1968) -- Stefan Wolpe (1948) -- Benjamin Britten (1963) -- Elliott Carter (1971) -- William Kapell (1954) -- Ralph Hawkes (1950) -- VI HIS OWN WORKS -- Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (1924) -- Music for the Theatre I & II (1925) -- Dance Symphony (1925) -- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1926) -- Two Pieces for String Orchestra (1928) -- Statements (1934) -- El Salón México (1936) -- Sextet(1937) -- Billy the Kid [Notes on a Cowboy Ballet] (1938) -- An Outdoor Overture (1938) -- Lincoln Portrait (1942) -- Music for Movies (1942) -- Fanfare for the Com m on Man (1942) -- Danzón Cubano I & II (1942) -- Appalachian Spring [Letters Regarding] (1944) -- Third Symphony (1946) -- The Red Pony (1948) -- Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Harp and Piano (1948) -- 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson (1950) -- Variations on a Shaker Melody (1956) -- Piano Fantasy I & II (1957) -- Orchestral Variations (1957) -- Dance Panels (1959, rev. 1962) -- Something Wild (1961) -- Connotations (1962) -- Emblems (1964) -- Music for a Great City (1964) -- Inscape (1967) -- Three Latin American Sketches (1959-1972) -- Midday Thoughts (1944, finished 1982) -- Proclamation (1973-1982, arranged 1985) -- VII PERSONAL -- From a Composer’s Notebook (1929) -- From a Composer’s Journal (1960) -- The Teacher and the Pupil (1960) -- Journal from Venezuela Visit ( 1954) -- Latin American Tour Journal (1963) -- Letters (1923-1944) -- Conversation with Edward T. Cone (1967) -- Bibliography -- Index.