Dear Aaron, Dear Lenny: A Friendship in Letters

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Permissions xii
5. Between Memory and History: An Introduction xv
6. Part I Scanning A Life
7. Copland and the Prophetic Voice 1
8. Founding Sons: Copland, Sessions, and Berger on Genealogy and Hybridity 15
9. Part II Copland's Greater Cultural World
10. "To Become as Human as Possible" 47
11. Copland and American Populism in the 1930S 81
12. From the New York Avant-Garde to Mexican Modernists: Aaron Copland and the Visual Arts 101
13. Making an American Dance 121
14. Part III Copland's Inner Circle
15. Dear Aaron, Dear Lenny: A Friendship in Letters 151
16. Aaron Copland and Arthur Berger in Correspondence 179
17. Part IV Analytic Perspectives
18. War Drums, Tolling Bells, And Copland's Piano Sonata 233
19. Copland's Gift to Be Simple Within the Cumulative Mosaic Complexities of His Ballets 255
20. Part V Political Edges
21. Copland and the Politics of Americanism 277
22. From Orient to Occident: Aaron Copland and the Sagas of the Prairie 307
23. Aaron Copland, Norman Rockwell, and the "Four Freedoms" 351
24. Aaron Copland Meets the Soviet Composers 379
25. Part VI Copland and His Public
26. Aaron Copland and the Composers' Forum-Laboratory 395
27. Copland on Television: An Annotated List of Interviews and Documentaries 413
28. Part VII Reconfiguring Copland's World
29. Copland Reconfigured 439
30. Index 487
31. Notes on the Contributors 499