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Article: Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man.(Review)
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Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. By Howard Pollack. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. [xi, 690 p. ISBN 0-8050-4909-6. $37.50.]
Howard Pollack's authoritative new study of the life, works, and times of Aaron Copland is an important and distinguished contribution to American musicology. Copland played a central role in twentieth-century American music culture--not only as a composer, but also as an educator, writer, mentor, and conductor--and Pollack does full justice to these and many other facets of Copland's accomplishment. Arriving just in time for both the turn of the century and the centennial of the composer's birth, this book invites us to ...