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Copland avoided the cliches often
7 employed by other film composers,
such as leitmotivs and romantic
excesses, instead focusing on the psy-
chological ramifications of the film.
He even nabbed an Oscar for The
Heiress in 1949.
Although Copland's name is inex-
tricably linked with American music,
Pollack isn't negligent in discussing the
NI-composer's affection for music south
( of the border and his longstanding
friendship with the Mexican composer
Carlos Chavez.
What has long been forgotten
about Copland — and which Pollack
delves into at length — is the compos-
er's appearance in the early '50s before
the House Un-American Activities
Committee. Copland kept his compo-
sure under the hectoring of Sen.
Joseph McCarthy's minions, but he
\vas harassed nonetheless.
Anyone familiar with Copland
knew he was a liberal, but he was no
Communist. In fact, Copland never
joined any political party.
However, even after he was cleared,
there were consequences. A Republican
firebrand named Fred Busbey shame-
fully but successfully persuaded his col-
leagues in the House to remove
Copland's music from the planned
Eisenhower inauguration in early 1953.
In his own way, Copland was patri-
otic, penning such quintessentially
American works as Lincoln Portrait
and Fanfare for the Common Man.
More disturbing than Copland's hav-
ing to face the HUAC was the disinte-
gration of his memory as he succumbed
to dementia. He began having memory
slips in the mid-'70s, but by the 1980s,
he was forgetting names and faces.
Pollack sadly recounts how near the
end of his life, Copland, once an avid
reader, would sit for hours, staring at
the same newspaper.
Composer Ned Rorem recalls a
time when Copland competently con-
ducted Appalachian Spring in concert;
but then had no recall of what had
just been performed.
However, the lingering portrait
Pollack leaves us with is of an abun-
dantly gifted, generous, patient man
who for his 90 years made the world a
more civil, cultured place. Li

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