This coffee break revisits the exuberant American sound of Aaron Copland with another hearing of his powerful The Tender Land, but it quickly veers off to check out some "unCopland-like" sounds. During his 52-year career, Copland composed a wide variety of powerful music from small dissonant pieces, movie scores, Marine Corps anthems, and even a soundtrack for an industrial film for the 1939 World's Fair. Copland's score for the movie North Star shows how he revolutionized how soundtracks were written.

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