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Symphony, in “Copland and the American Sound,” a video recording directed and produced in 2006 by David Kennard and Joan Saffa. Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 361–62.
    36 . Copland and Perlis,
Copland: Since 1943
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1989), 77; Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 237.
    37 . For the quote, see Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 225. Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 375.
    38 . Copland and Perlis,
Copland: Since 1943
, 62.
    39 . Edwin Denby, “The Dance: Appalachian Spring,”
New York Herald Tribune
, May 15, 1945, 14; Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 47.
    40 . “Pulitzer Awards for 1944 Revealed,”
New York Times
, May 8, 1945, A1.
    41 . Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 346, 383, 432.
    42 . Ibid., 240; Copland and Perlis,
Copland: Since 1943
, 19.
    43 . Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 235.
    44 . Ibid., 236, 246–48.
    45 . Copland and Perlis,
Copland: Since 1943
, 174; Vargo,
Noble Lives
, 57–58.
    46 . Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 241–42; Vargo,
Noble Lives
, 58.
    47 . Copland and Perlis,
Copland: Since 1943
, 87, 135, 293, 334; Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 96, 240.
    48 . Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 236–37.
    49 . Ibid., 243.
    50 . Ibid., 242; Copland and Perlis,
Copland: Since 1943
, 309.
    51 . Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 242–43.
    52 . Copland to Phillip Ramey, October 12, 1972, Aaron Copland Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
    53 . Ernest A. Lotito, “30 to Receive Freedom Medals,”
Washington Post
, July 4, 1964, A1; Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 476.
    54 . Copland and Perlis,
Copland: Since 1943
, 359, 383.
    55 . Ibid., 401; Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 244; Vargo,
Noble Lives
, 58.
    56 .Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 244; Vargo,
Noble Lives
, 58.
    57 . Copland and Perlis,
Copland: Since 1943
, 387.
    58 . Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 244; Vargo,
Noble Lives
, 58.
    59 . Pollack,
Aaron Copland
, 244.
    60 . Richard F. Shepard, “TV: ‘Kennedy Center Honors’ Celebrates the Performing Arts,”
New York Times
, December 29, 1979, 42; Lon Tuck, “12 to Receive Arts Medals,”
Washington Post
, July 8, 1986, D3.
    61 . Vargo,
Noble Lives
, 58.
    62 . For the quote, see Rockwell, “Copland,” A1. “Aaron Copland Dies; Music Found the American Mood,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 3, 1990, A1; Bart Barnes, “Eminent American Composer Aaron Copland Dies at 90,”
Washington Post
, December 3, 1990, A1; “Composer Copland Dies,”
Chicago Tribune
, December 3, 1990, A1; Richard Dyer, “Composer Aaron Copland Dies,”
Boston Globe
, December 3, 1990, A1.
CHAPTER 11: FRANK MERLO & TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, 1948–1963
    1 . On Williams’s early years, see Donald Spoto,
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1985), 1–66; Dakin Williams and Shepherd Mead,
Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography
(New York: Arbor House, 1983), 13–45; Tennessee Williams,
Memoirs
(New York: New Directions, 1972), 1–51. Williams’s parents were Cornelius Williams and Edwina Dakin Williams.
    2 . John J. Goldman, “Tennessee Williams, 71, Playwright, Dies in N.Y.,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 26, 1983, A19.
    3 . Ibid.
    4 . Williams,
Memoirs
, 24, 36.
    5 . Richard Christiansen, “Tennessee Williams Killed by Bottle Cap,”
Chicago Tribune
, February 27, 1983, B11.
    6 . Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 64.
    7 . J. Y. Smith, “Tennessee Williams Is Dead at Age 71,”
Washington Post
, February 26, 1983, B6.
    8 . On Merlo’s early years, see Spoto,
Kindness
, 152–54; Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 169–80.
    9 . Spoto,
Kindness
, 244–45.
    10 . Ibid.
    11 . Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 73.
    12 . Spoto,
Kindness
, 69.
    13 . Richard Christiansen, “Last Curtain Falls for Dramatist Tennessee Williams, Dead at 71,”
Chicago Tribune
, February 26 1983, 1, 2.
    14 . Goldman, “Tennessee Williams,” A20.
    15 . Claudia Cassidy, “Fragile Drama