The tempo of the music is fast and exciting. Aaron Copland (pronounced AIR-uhn KOHP-luhnd) was possibly the most famous American composer of the 20th century. He was one of the first 'serious ...

The first big American story Copland took on was Billy the Kid (1938). He knew that his music would have to represent the vastness of the American landscape. It’s ironic that a composer who ...

Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert orchestra focus on music inspired by Mexico.

Andrew Keener spoke to the American composer on the occasion of his 80th birthday in the February 1980 issue... Read more Born in a humble street in Brooklyn, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, Copland ...

But consider who Copland’s Common Man is. The composer took the title from a 1942 anti-fascist speech by vice president Henry A. Wallace in which (among other things) he called for the ...

Wrexham Symphony Orchestra will stage a performance of “East Meets West” at the William Aston Hall this month. The concert, ...

The Southwestern Ohio Symphonic Band is set to perform its spring concert in Hamilton as part of the band’s 55th anniversary season.

The Kettle Moraine Symphony will be performing American composer Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Quiet City in an ...

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