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Arthur Miller's Lasting Impact

In plays such as Death of a Salesman, All My Sons and The Crucible, Miller offered great entertainment mixed with pungent social criticism. He earned fame far beyond that accorded to most American playwrights. And he kept writing for more than six decades.

Arthur Miller's Lasting Impact

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'Appalachian Spring'

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'Appalachian Spring'

Copland most famous composition, and one that some critics call his best, was written for a Martha Graham ballet, and Copland once said the music really had nothing to do with Appalachia or spring.

'Appalachian Spring'

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'Porgy and Bess'

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'Porgy and Bess'

Was this work by DuBose Heyward and George and Ira Gershwin an opera or a musical, a serious work or a patronizing minstrel show? Deeply divided critics asked similar questions

'Porgy and Bess'

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'Oklahoma!'

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'Oklahoma!'

Jeff Lunden tells the story of "Oklahoma!" The musical, which premiered in 1943, and was expected to flop. But it didn't.

'Oklahoma!'

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