You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
-- Aaron Copland
   
Aaron Copland   Name:
Aaron Copland
Type:
Composer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
November 14, 1900
Death:
February 2, 1990
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