In music Aaron Copland wrote during World War II, he was trying to evoke the emotion a soldier might feel upon reading a letter from home. The Buffalo Philharmonic plays Copland's music in concert ...

The Des Moines Symphony will bring a blend of American classics to the stage this spring with “Hope – Copland & Gershwin,” a ...

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Premiered in 1946 and written to reflect the euphoric mood of the country at the end of WW II, Aaron Copland emphasized American heroism in his Symphony No. 3 by reprising his 1942 “Fanfare for the ...