Slonimsky’s Music of Latin America: A Short Study, and a Question (or three).
In 1941, two U.S. musicians, Aaron Copland and Nicolas Slonimsky, headed off to Latin America on official missions. The latter, sent out by the Fleisher Music Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, was entrusted with three missions, of which the first was to collect orchestral scores that would subsequently be copied under a Works …