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1942
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ditions as they affected composers.
How a composer managed to get
his compositions performed or
published and how he was ex-
pected to earn his living were
equally mysterious. I had left
my drab Brooklyn street as a mere
student with practically no musi-
cal connections. I was returning
there in much the same state. As
far as I was concerned, America
was virgin soil."
Nadia Boulanger, whom Cop-
land credits with the greatest
part of his training, having been
his inspiration during his years
at Fontainebleau, was to continue
to accelerate his development even
in America. She was the organ-
ist with the Boston Symphony
Orchestra in February, 1925, when
his symphony for organ and or-
chestra was first - produced—the
first of Copland's compositions to
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be presented to an American au-
dience. The name of Koussevit-
zky—which, like that of Bou-
langer, seems to hover over the
destiny of Copland—also entered
the story at that time, for he
was then serving his first term
as conductor of the Boston Sym-
phony. From that day to this,
Copland had had in Koussevitzky
a friend and a sponsor. But that
could also be said of the great
majority of competent moderns,
who were sure to find sympathy
and understanding at his hands.
From the summer of 192•, when
Copland picked up a meager liv-
ing by playing the piano with a
three-piece orchestra at Milford,
Pa., until his most recent volume
on American composers called
"Our New Music," his has been
a steady advance in guiding the
musical taste of America, by ex-
ample and teaching. Even the
movies have found a place for his
gifts, even though when Dr. Wal-
ter Damrosch first presented one
of his compositions he had to
apologize to the audience of old
ladies. Such films as "Our Town"
and "Of Mice and Men," them-
selves adventures in technique,
have been appropriately scored by
the man who is today president
of the American Composers' Al-
liance. He lectures, writes and or-
ganizes concerts of modern com-
posers even as he continues as well
as at the New School for Social
Research.
Musical students who are dis-
couraged by the lack of appre-
ciation of their talents might well
study the case of Aaron Copland,
who in those early days of his
career was somewhere on the edge
of penury. He tried to teach but
found no pupils. By chance he
received the first fellowship for
a composer issued by the Guggen-
heim Memorial Foundation and for
three years he was maintained
from that source.
It is amusing to think that he
received a $5,000 prize in 1929
from an RCA Victor contest for
a symphonic work for three of
the movements from his Paris-
written ballet which he entitled
"Dance Symphony" and sent in
to the judges on the last day
before the contest ended.
Copland's outstanding contribu-
tion to American music has been
his vigorous championship of na-
tive work, his encouragement of
young musicians trying new forms,
his faith in the new channels in
which American music must seek
expression. He is convinced that
the phonograph and the radio as
well as the films offer hitherto
untapped opportunities for the
stimulation of new musical tal-
ent in original molds. Copland is
no advocate of the esoteric values
of music. In telling composers
what the radio offers, he says:
"What the radio has done, in
the final analysis, has been to
bring to the surface this need
to communicate one's music to the
widest possible audience. This
should by no means be confused
with mere opportunism. On the
contrary, it stems from a healthy
desire in every artist to find his
deepest feelings reflected in his
fellowman. It is not without its
political implications, also, for it
takes its source partly from that
same need to reaffirm the demo-
cratic ideal that already fills our
literature, our stage and our
screen. It is not a time for poig-
nantly subjective lieder but a time
for large mass singing. We are
the men who must embody new
communal ideals in a new com-
munal music."
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