Originally composed in 1942 for a ballet called Rodeo, the Hoe-Down features two American ... melody leaps about - it can’t keep still. Aaron Copland created this music to be danced to inspired ...

Copland himself is the key explicator of his own extraordinary musical career, from piano lessons in Brooklyn and study with Nadia Boulanger, a fling as a wild-eyed modernist, and finally to his ...

Lemn Sissay explores Copland's music from Rodeo with beautiful animation. Originally composed in 1942 for a ballet called Rodeo, the Hoe-Down features two American square dance tunes and fuses ...