{"id":2081,"date":"2021-09-03T12:48:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2021-09-06T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T23:08:19","slug":"joe-mccarthy-grills-aaron-copland-as-your-communist-part-record-is-extremely-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/2021\/09\/joe-mccarthy-grills-aaron-copland-as-your-communist-part-record-is-extremely-long.html","title":{"rendered":"Joe McCarthy Grills Aaron Copland: &#8220;As your Communist Party record is extremely long . . . &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Excerpt from \u201cAaron Copland: American Populist&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0kAXmbCHCY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAs your Communist Party record is extremely long, I think counsel [i.e., Roy Cohn] will want to ask you some questions. . . . Those who underestimate the work the staff has done in the past end up occasionally before a Grand Jury.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&#8211;Senator Joseph McCarthy, addressing Aaron Copland (May 26, 1953)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This chilling audio re-enactment, with Edward Gero as McCarthy, is an excerpt from \u201cAaron Copland: American Populist,\u201d a 45-minute NPR documentary to be broadcast as a Labor Day Special&nbsp;<strong>this Monday at 10 am ET via the newsmagazine \u201c1A.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show derives from a Copland documentary I produced for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postclassical.com\">PostClassical Ensemble <\/a>\u2013 one of six documentary films exploring topics in American music, all of which Naxos will release this Fall in tandem with the publication of my book&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/josephhorowitz.com\/content.asp?elemento_id=68\">Dvorak\u2019s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music.&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pressed by McCarthy, Copland denied ever attending \u201ca Communist meeting.\u201d But in fact he was deeply engaged by the Popular Front in the 1930s, even addressing a Communist picnic in Minnesota. His excruciating encounter with the Red Scare broaches topics urgently pertinent today: the suppression of free expression and open-minded dialogue (both on the left and the right); the marginalization of the arts in American culture and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My own mantra (as expressed at the end of the Copland broadcast) is that \u201cAmericans must claim and refresh a common cultural inheritance \u2013 or we are in trouble as a nation.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs your Communist Party record is extremely long, I think counsel [i.e., Roy Cohn] will want to ask you some questions. . . . Those who underestimate the work the staff has done in the past end up occasionally before a Grand Jury.\u201d &#8211;Senator Joseph McCarthy, addressing Aaron Copland (May 26, 1953) This chilling audio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QLHN-xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}