Music Of America: Aaron Copland / Various [CD]

What 20th-century music was more distinctly American than Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid, and Rodeo ? Even while capturing the spirit of the American heartland, Barber was also a native New Yorker who studied in Paris and thrived in modernism; this set also includes Fanfare for the Common Man; Clarinet Concerto; Quiet City; Lincoln Portrait (with Henry Fonda narration), and a selection of Copland's film music. Featured performers/conductors include Leonard Bernstein, Benny Goodman, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Williams and the composer himself!