Copland Connotations: Studies and Interviews [Hardcover]

These essays crystallize a revisionist moment centring on the Copland centenary year, and offer new insights into his great legacy. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT An essential addition to the Copland bibliography, as one would expect from a project masterminded by Peter Dickinson. DAVID THOMPSON, MUSIC & VISION Peter Dickinson's collection is an important contribution not just to Copland studies, in which it will immediately become a central source, but to the study and understanding of twentieth century American music and its reception. MUSIC & LETTERS

An important contribution not just to Copland studies [but to the]...understanding of twentieth-century US music and its reception.

The contributors to Copland Connotations - both American and British - include the leading figures in Copland studies. Pre-eminent among these is Vivian Perlis, whose two-volume memoirs were written in collaboration with the composer himself; then Howard Pollack, whose substantial biography of Copland has been acclaimed; and also other established specialists in American music such as Stephen Banfield, William Brooks, Mark DeVoto, Peter Dickinson, David Schiff, Larry Starr and the distinguished analyst Arnold Whittall. Brilliant studies from young scholars are a special feature - Jessica Burr, Jennifer DeLapp, Sally Bick, Daniel E. Mathers and Marta Robertson. These all offer exciting new perspectives on Copland's work; unique reflections on his private life; and indicate the undoubted vitality of his appeal to future generations.The British-based team of authors, along with Anthony Burton, David Nicholls and Bayan Northcott, engages in a lively open forum discussion covering many issues in connection with Copland and his work. And finally Copland Connotations brings Copland himself into the picture by providing transcriptions of two previously unpublished interviews Copland gave to Peter Dickinson at Keele University in 1976.

PETER DICKINSON is head of Music at the Institute of United States Studies, London University, and Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Keele and London.