On Mar 6, 2007, at 5:36 AM, dhbailey wrote:
so the folks who made the recording, in their desire to record a bit of American folk culture before it was lost, enabled an up and coming composer to get rich while the person who actually created the music got not a penny for his creation.
1. Copland was never "rich" in his life. You have a very exaggerated notion of the economic status of classical composers, especially American ones. He mostly lived by the support of his life partners.
2. Do you really think that the success of _Rodeo_ depends entirely on the hoedown--or rather, the "Bonaparte's Retreat" part of it (much of the music in that movement is entirely original to Copland)?
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