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Keeping Score  Copland and the American Sound

Explore what brought Copland to write music that gave Americans a sense of identity. Details

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Program: Keeping Score

Episode: Copland and the American Sound

Aaron Copland blended his Brooklyn Jewish roots with jazz, folk music, and hymns to gamble on a new American sound, yet how such an unlikely outsider captured the spirit of Billy the Kid is a tale worth its own string section.

Duration: (55:21)
Premiere Date: 10/13/2009
Episode Expires: 12/31/1969
TV Rating: TV-G
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