Copland & Ives - July 4th

🎀 Cute Composer Series: 4th of July — Great American Composers 🇺🇸✨🎶 Aaron Copland (1900–1990) was a kid from Brooklyn who invented the sound of America 🎹🌾 Called the "Dean of American Music", Copland spent his career asking one simple question: what does American music actually sound like? His answers, wwere the wide open harmonies, folk tunes and hymns transformed by jazz rhythms ✨ His ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring are the sonic equivalent of the American flag. Fanfare for the Common Man has been played at every presidential inauguration since it was written in 1942 🏛️  He also won an Oscar, a Pulitzer, a Grammy, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Charles Ives (1874–1954) was a Connecticut Yankee who built the most innovative body of music in American history — and then filed it in a drawer and went back to selling insurance 💼 While running what became the largest insurance agency in the country (he also invented the concept of estate planning lol), Ives spent his nights and weekends composing music that wouldn't be understood for 50 years. Polytonality, atonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, musical quotation, chance elements…Ives invented or anticipated virtually every major compositional technique of the 20th century. Leonard Bernstein called him the "Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson of American music." 🌌 👉 Which one's music do you want to explore more? VOTE BELOW👇& follow @daixcompose for more Cute Composer spotlights 💙 Recordings: 🎶 Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man for Orchestra (1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWmQy64uWKY 🎶 Charles Ives: Three Places in New England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-5xO1FgbDQ . . . . . #CuteComposerSeries #July4th #IndependenceDay #AaronCopland #CharlesIves #AmericanComposers #ClassicalMusic #AppalachianSpring #FanfareForTheCommonMan #TheUnansweredQuestion #AmericanMusic #ComposerSpotlight #MusicHistory #NewMusic #daixai