Copland himself is the key explicator of his own extraordinary musical career, from piano lessons in Brooklyn and study with Nadia Boulanger, a fling as a wild-eyed modernist, and finally to his preeminence in the American musical world. The program...
Eugene O’Neill’s nostalgic paean to the rites of adolescence is also an idealized version of the boyhood and warm family life O’Neill never had. The affectionate comedy—set against a backdrop of turn-of-the century Fourth of July picnics and...