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Copland as American Composer
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THOUGH Aaron Copland has been an important figure in American serious music for more than fifty years, he remains, as Leonard Bernstein has said, “the best we have,” and his career is the very model of the success to which an American composer may aspire.
His seventy-fifth birthday, recently celebrated, seems an appropriate moment to inquire into the nature of that career and of his special achievement as an American composer.
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