It as only in Connotations (1962) that he returned to the avant-garde style that first brought him to fame. What can you say in summation of a man like Aaron Copland? Everything about him marked ...

Read more Born in a humble street in Brooklyn, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, Copland is generally regarded as the first indisputably great American composer. The piano came easily to him and, ...

Copland’s Rodeo is a piece of music so American, it was used in a beef commercial in the 1990s: ...

Originally composed in 1942 for a ballet called Rodeo, the Hoe-Down features two American square dance tunes and fuses evocative music and dance. Rodeo takes us to the exciting, dramatic world of ...