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In his lifetime, Aaron Copland gave us so much music, and so much specifically American music. We just heard Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man once again played at an important national moment: the memorial ceremony in Tucson, Arizona. It was uplifting to once more hear that piece under such powerful circumstances.

I just finished reading Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen and aside from simply enjoying the story and the context of Ellington's life, it enriched my love of the music and deepened my awareness of some periods of his work I did not know as well...