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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But...

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Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sus...

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer wou...

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer wou...

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What to Listen for in Music

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.

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Aaron Copland

Composer

Born: 1900-11-14

Died: 1990-12-02

Aaron Copland (November 14 1900 – December 2 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as “the dean of American composers.”More