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Adding To The Gaiety Of The Nation

Charles Osborne AARON COPLAND by Howard Pollack Faber, £30, pp. 704 T he United States of America pro- duced some of the 20th century's most important composers, ranging from......

Getting Back Into Touch

P. J. Kavanagh THE SONG OF THE EARTH by Jonathan Bate Picador, £18, pp. 322 T his book is an analysis of the progress of our disconnection from `nature', though there is no......