From 2006: Art doesn't have to be true to life to be good, but when a work of art is true to your life, it strikes a special chord. On occasion music has this effect on me: I can think of any number of pieces that appear to embody my feelings about the world so precisely that I feel as though I might have written them. Much of Aaron Copland's music has that effect on me, as does the streetlights-at-dusk melanch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM on July 21, 2020