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Aaron Copland grew up in Brooklyn far from the mainstream elegance of Carnegie Hall. The son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he went to public school, took piano lessons, and was mitzvahed at the Kane ...

JAMEELA JAMIL:'Can you hear Copland adding another brass instrument?' JAMEELA JAMIL:'Those are French horns.' MUSIC: Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland JAMEELA JAMIL:'Now listen out for ...

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 House — the champion for American music and the arts at the Cortlandt Manor home of Aaron Copland — announced ... "Appalachian Spring" and "Fanfare for the Common Man." ...