[Lauren BaRecall]

I agree. IMO, he's boring...never gets to the punch line. Like muzak for The Great Prairie (which deserves vastly better - like Elmer Bernstein did for The West).

[left that other site]

I saw a PBS special on Copeland (American Masters ?) and I could not believe the way the commentators were fawning all over him, and then they would play an excerpt. snore.

He was what he was. But not deserving of worship! But then of course, he was a reported homosexual, so they JUST HAD to present him as the greatest genius of all time.

That’s PBS for ya.

[Borges]

Copland’s work was endlessly imitated by movie composers like elmer Bernstein. Listen to his early Piano Variations. He was a very challenging composer.