AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES             136 a‑d

Leonard Bernstein

with Vivian Perlis

Fairfield, Connecticut

September 22, 1983

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a:             pp. 1‑10

Friends at Harvard‑‑Arthur Berger‑‑Irving Fine‑‑Harold Shapero‑hearing first piece of Copland‑‑Copland's Piano Variations‑‑David Prall‑‑I. Bernard Cohen‑‑first meeting with Anna Sokolow‑‑article by Burton Bernstein‑‑trip to New York to see Sokolow's debut‑‑first meeting with Copland‑‑playing Piano Variations for Copland‑‑visiting with Copland‑‑Saloon‑‑Second Hurricane‑‑Peabody Playhouse in Boston‑after graduation from Harvard‑‑Adolph Green.

Side b:             pp. 10-26

Looking for a job in New York‑‑Lamentations of Jeremiah‑‑showing compositions to Copland‑‑Billy the Kid‑‑Rodeo‑‑Playing Rodeo with Copland for Agnes de Mille‑‑return home from New York‑‑first meeting with Mitropoulos‑‑studying conducting with Reiner at Curtis‑‑Tanglewood‑his and Copland's friendship with Koussevitzky‑‑memories of Hindemith‑conductIng, L'Histoire du Soldat for Koussevitzky.

Side c:             pp. 26-34

Discussion of photographs‑‑helping Copland conduct‑‑Copland's Third Symphony‑‑Lincoln Portrait‑‑a tribute to Koussevitzky‑‑Aldolph Green.

Side d:             pp. 34‑50

David Diamond‑‑Copland's piano playing‑‑Copland's feelings towards jazz as source material‑‑Copland's personality‑‑his piano playing‑‑death of Copland's father‑‑"Judge Nose"‑‑performance of the Piano Sonata at Town Hall‑‑Piano Fantasy‑Willy Kapell‑‑world premiere of Danzón Cubano‑Harold Clurman.