Koussevitzky led the orchestra for the first performance of Copland's early work, "Music for the Theater,"

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in nineteen twenty-five. Koussevitzky also conducted Copland's "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" in nineteen twenty-seven.

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The famous conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, learned about Copland's music.

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If conductors are judged not as metrical disciplinarians but as shapers of musical life, Koussevitzky might have been the greatest of them all.

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This last year we installed Copland, and we hope to have the Leonard Bernstein sculpture prepared for 2013, and beyond that Koussevitzky the next year, we hope.

FORBES: Film Composer John Williams Reminisces About Ties With Boston Pops And Tanglewood

Tanglewood was founded by Serge Koussevitzky, and Aaron Copland was head of the school for many years, and Leonard Bernstein was not only a student here but a leader here for so many decades.

FORBES: Film Composer John Williams Reminisces About Ties With Boston Pops And Tanglewood