![]() ![]() ![]() More than a decade before he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for capturing the human experience in music, Copland brought to his six lectures, later published as Music and Imagination ( public library), not only the mind of an extraordinary musician but the central concern of his life - the artist’s role in the human family and the vital mutual nourishment between those who make art and those whose lives art touches, with a particular focus on the most commonly underappreciated agent in the musical universe: the gifted listener. Months after Millay’s death, Harvard offered its prestigious Charles Edward Norton Professorship of Poetry for the 1951–1952 academic year to the composer Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900–December 2, 1990) - the first non-poet to hold the post since its inception a quarter century earlier. Vincent Millay wrote to a friend, adding the requisite flamboyance of a 1920s radical: “Without music I should wish to die.” ![]() “Even poetry, Sweet Patron Muse forgive me the words, is not what music is,” the poet Edna St. ![]()
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