Friday, January 27, 2012

Who's This Dude?

He really did look like a cartoon!

Our Who's This Dude was a small man if you met him, but had a personality which was larger than life! Mr. Aaron Copland is one of the most prolific American composers we have ever known. Touching every genre of composition, he wrote for strings, brass, percussion, orchestra, ballets, musicals, and solo instrument and voice. With cowboy songs, we will be looking a lot at his ballet named "Rodeo," particularly the "Hoedown" movement. If you remember the "Beef: it's what's for dinner" commercials from the early 90s, this is the tune!

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