Maestros and their motor cars (13): How many composers can you cram in a Chevvy?
Daily Comfort ZoneAaron Copland with Samuel Barber and Gian-Carlo Menotti, not a dissonant note between them.
Taken in 1945 at Bernardsville, NJ, by Copland’s friend Victor Kraft.
As late as 1972 Menotti was still driving a classic 1953-ish Packard, if I recall. I sang in a staged cantata of his in the long-gone Temple University Music Festival at Ambler, a summer residence for the Pittsburgh symphony back in the day. Menotti drove down from Mount Kisco to take charge of the production. (This was also about the time the Temple U choirs premiered Barber’s last large scale work “The Lovers” with Ormandy and the Philadelphia.)
COPLAND: “I’m sorry Samuel, but it says right here that I’m more original than you, old boy.”
Lotta cramming going on I’m sure…
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