"Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had written to me at the end of August about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942–43 concert season. During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert. It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers."
I was intrigued by the reference to the set of British WW1 fanfares, and tried to find some information on them, but could not. I then realised that during WW1, Goossens was an young orchestral player, not a conductor, and hence it would have been unlikely that he would have done this. Further, there is no mention of it in his autobiography.
So I am wondering whether Copland misremembered events in his autobiography, and his statement has become the accepted truth (it is quoted in many places).
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