Volume 32, Number 3 · February 28, 1985
Success Story
By Arthur Berger
Copland: 1900 Through 1942
by Aaron Copland, by Vivian Perlis
St. Martin's/Marek, 402 pp., $24.95
It is doubtful that world fame was uppermost in Aaron Copland's mind when he decided at fifteen to devote himself to music, even though years later he told his friend Harold Clurman, 'I wish to be remembered.' At forty-one Copland could regard himself without any immodesty at all as America's most successful composer (of so-called serious music), and now as he approaches his eighty-fifth birthday (November 14, 1985) he can look back with satisfaction from the thought of having achieved an international reputation no one could have anticipated for an American composer when he started his career in the 1920s.
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