1) Aaron Copland was an energetic promoter of American music.

2) STEVE EMBER: Aaron Copland wrote many kinds of music.

3) Aaron Copland wrote "Lincoln Portrait" to honor the president.

4) Aaron Copland ( 1900 - 1990 ) was one of the leading American composers in 20 th century.

5) Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, and Leonard Bernstein incorporated folk melodies, religious hymns, blues and gospel songs, and jazz into their symphonies, concertos, operas,(http:///aaron copland.html) and ballets.

6) Aaron Copland, America's best - known and best - loved composer would have been 100 years old this centennial year.

7) But composers like Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland introduced “big changes to the nation’s patriotic music,” he said.

8) Another response to a visual stimulus was Thomson's series of musical portraits of people such as Picasso and Aaron Copland.

9) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

10) THE melting snows of spring and early summer are justly celebrated by Aaron Copland and Walt Whitman.