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Copland in Argentina
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“New World music” proved a hard sell in Argentina in 1941, with its strong Europhile tradition, upheld by intellectual elites, and substantial German and Italian populations. Among the many composers indifferent to folk idioms was Juan Carlos Paz, Latin America’s first serialist. Copland admired the colorful, nationalist works of Alberto Ginastera but was most impressed by José María Castro, largely forgotten outside Argentina today. Copland also heard a performance of his An Outdoor Overture, which the Nazi-funded, anti-Semitic press roundly attacked but in which the pro-U.S. press heard “the energetic soul of [Copland’s] people.” The press also digested a concert of U.S. music, performed by Copland, Nicolas Slonimsky (then in Buenos Aires), and several Jewish refugee musicians.
Title: Copland in Argentina
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“New World music” proved a hard sell in Argentina in 1941, with its strong Europhile tradition, upheld by intellectual elites, and substantial German and Italian populations.
Among the many composers indifferent to folk idioms was Juan Carlos Paz, Latin America’s first serialist.
Copland admired the colorful, nationalist works of Alberto Ginastera but was most impressed by José María Castro, largely forgotten outside Argentina today.
Copland also heard a performance of his An Outdoor Overture, which the Nazi-funded, anti-Semitic press roundly attacked but in which the pro-U.
S.
press heard “the energetic soul of [Copland’s] people.
” The press also digested a concert of U.
S.
music, performed by Copland, Nicolas Slonimsky (then in Buenos Aires), and several Jewish refugee musicians.
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