What you would call good-looking-something much better, more striking.' Others similarly described him paradoxically as 'stunningly ugly,' as 'endearingly homely,' as having a 'wonderful ugly/beautiful Copland Who for many years edited Copland's writings, concurred that artists and photographers found him 'always the perfect subject, the face one could never forget-after Stravinsky's, THE face. Interviewing Copland over the radio, the dance critic John Gruen pictured for his audience 'this marvelous, strong, splendid Coplandesque face that we have all come to love and be familiar with.' Minna Lederman, His countenance changed little over the years. When he was a young man, his spectacles, dark suits, and thinning brown hair made him look older than his years, whereas in old age his boyish grin gave him a remarkably youthfulĪppearance. Out from under heavy lids with a kind of bemused curiosity. He had his mother's oblong face and craggy features, with sensitive pale blue-gray eyes that looked

In maturity Copland stood just under six feet tall, a lanky figure weighing only about one hundred and fifty pounds.

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