Copland and Communism: Mystery and Mayhem by Emilie Schulze

“…In the midst of the second Red Scare, Aaron Copland, an American composer, came under fire for his communist tendencies. …”
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Misreading Revueltas: Polysemy and the Second String Quartet by Chelsea Burns

“…Abstract Silvestre Revueltas’s Second String Quartet premiered in Mexico City 1931, and was played a year later at Aaron Copland’s Yaddo Festival in Saratoga Springs. When Copland heard the work, he described it as “very amusing... a little Mexican drama, and I could easily imagine it being danced.” …”
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Návrat Jana Nováka do USA by Martin Flašar

“…Just one year before the communist putsch in 1948, Novák studied with Aaron Copland and Bohuslav Martinů in Tanglewood and in New York. …”
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GLOBALIZÁCIÓ ÉS KÖZGAZDASÁG-TUDOMÁNY by Tibor Ritter, László Trautmann

“…Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Aaron Copland, John Updike, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier. …”
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The Symphony in 1933 by MacGregor, E

“…East-Coast nexus that centres on New York and Boston, via Mexico City, looking in detail at Hans Pfitzner's Symphony in C-sharp minor, Roy Harris's <em>Symphony 1933</em>, Aaron Copland's <em>Short Symphony</em>, and Arthur Honegger's <em>Mouvement Symphonique nr. 3</em>.…”

Opera at Columbia: A Shining Legacy by Margaret Ross Griffel

“…My love for opera was further nourished by my years at New York City’s High School of Music and Art, then some twenty blocks north of Columbia University, during which time Handel oratorios were semistaged at the school’s major concerts and Aaron Copland’s The Second Hurricane (1937) was revived at Carnegie Hall in a 1960 performance by M&A students conducted by Leonard Bernstein. …”
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