Aaron Copland said that it was his good fortune that he was "twenty in the twenties." When he returned to New York it was in the midst of an artistic and social revival, and he immediately became a part of that renewal. His early music mixes very modern musical ideas with hints of jazz influence. In the fall of 1921, he sold his first piano piece, "Scherzo Humoristique" (The Cat and the Mouse), to the publisher Durand. The music he wrote came to be regarded as the most representative echo of the American spirit. On January 11, 1924 his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra was performed by the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, with Nadia Boulanger as soloist and Walter Damrosch as conductor. It was later performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, who had originally suggested the co

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