I’m reading this book on Glass’ works and life, and he mentions his first meeting with Copland (whose music btw I quite dislike):
Tags: aaron copland, philip glassI remember Copland came to one of our classes, and he was his [Milhaud’s] guest there. I had written a violin concerto that summer, and I was showing my piece and he said, “Oh, this orchestration isn’t going to sound well,” and I said, “I’m sure it would.” We got into a big argument. He didn’t like me very much. I kind of told him that I thought he was wrong. Don’t forget, I was twenty and he was about sixty, and I think he was completely shocked that I even talked back to him…By the way, the concerto was played at the end of the summer, and it turned out I was right. The orchestration was absolutely hearable. Well, he wasn’t around for the performance, but I did see, and I was right.
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