A merica ,fewish Periodical Caller 1942 CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO [ Nlarch 27, 1942 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle COMPOSER Season's Greetings )AD (Continued from page 4) 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. 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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." 9 Wants Foreign-Language Newspapers Translated ALBANY (JPS ) —A bill in- troduced into the New York Senate by Senator Edward J. Coughlin of Brooklyn provides that no newspaper may be pub- lished in a foreign language un- less full English translations are printed in parallel columns. Mr. Coughlin said that he expected to amend the measure to ban foreign-language broadcasts un- less English translations accom- panied them. 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