Who is the greatest American composer?

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft1qAOW4znM] Three of my favorite American composers are George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Duke Ellington. Today on the classical radio, I listened to Aaron Copland’s great Rodeo Ballet. The Hoe Down movement is so utterly American, so exquisitely compelling, so deliciously seductive that I felt compelled to share it with Quiner’s Diners…

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