Rodeo takes us to the exciting ... The initial melody leaps about - it can’t keep still. Aaron Copland created this music to be danced to inspired by music cowboys liked to dance to.

Aaron Copland grew up in Brooklyn far ... In this world, the young Copland heard a lot of Yiddish popular music, which grew out of a tradition filled with improvisation—with songs for weddings, ...

Whatever one thinks of his virtually unknown middle- and late-period music, Copland has to be admired for his steadfast independence and unwillingness to court popularity for its own sake.

Rodeo takes us to the exciting ... The initial melody leaps about - it can’t keep still. Aaron Copland created this music to be danced to inspired by music cowboys liked to dance to.