there was a second problem with aaron copland announce how to get from a chapter on aaron copland to get to a chapter on alex gensler. i could do without but it was going to get a real far. but, in fact, this is where cultural circuits come into play. i came across a cultural circuit, in fact it's deeper than what i write about. but i came across a cultural circuit and the tide began chapter to. and let me start the reading by reading that section. talk about aaron copland any earlier chapter about his movie music among other things. aaron copland his first important musical project after billy the kid, was to write the score in 1939 for a film by the innovative director lewis milestone made from john steinbeck's novella about hardluck migrant workers in california of mice and men. koplan have been trying to break into the work since 97 but was still don't kno know it as a composer of modernist art music and hence was considered too difficult for american moviegoers. thanks in part to scoop -- good friend, and inspired in part by thomson samore, copland finally got his foot in the do

and the beginning fugue the song is a total aaron copland steal, but not really, 'cause we changed things, you know. in the--roughly the same period, you took a trip to nicaragua in the late '80s. what was the fascination there? i had run across-- i'm very fond of-- what's the word? what are those women who have two--bipolar women. bipolar women who drink are the most exciting women that i've run into, as a general rule. and i ran into this story of nora astorga, who was a lawyer in managua before the-- during and before the revolution succeeded in 1979. and her story had been that she had been a lawyer who worked downtown, like on-- what's the street? madison avenue or something-- type lawyer, but secretly was supportive of the sandinistas and would do this, that, and the other thing for them in her capacity as a downtown lawyer. and there was this general who was general vega something or other, who was hustling her and wanted her to be his concubine and this, that, and the other thing. she would keep putting him off and off and off. finally, one day, they concocted a plot to lure him u