Cat and mouse(Federal Bureau of Investigation files on composer Aaron Copland)

From: The Nation | Date: December 18, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Aaron Copland, who may have been the greatest 20th century American composer, was investigated for years by the FBI and questioned by the McCarthy committee for possible Communist connections because of his efforts to develop international relations with other composers, including Russian.

Secret government files reveal that composer Aaron Copland was monitored for at least a decade by the F.B.I. and was even considered for criminal prosecution by the Justice Department. The government worried that Copland, considered by many the greatest U.S. composer of the twentieth century and author ...

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