Friends, Mentors, & Colleagues

A Who’s Who of musicians and others, including mentors: conductors, Serge Koussevitzky, Dimitri Mirtropulos, and Bruno Walter; composers Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles, William Schuman, and Marc Blitzstein; teachers Nadia Boulanger, and Renée Longy-Miquelle; colleague composers/friends: David Diamond, Lukas Foss, Irving Fine; and collaborator/friends: Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jerome Robbins, Isaac Stern, and Lillian Hellman.