[teletech]

I am glad you enjoyed it. Maybe I should make this a regular thing...people have really responded!

A good idea. I just finished listening to another of my favorites Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring prior to finding your post.

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I am not a big fan of Copeland, but I do like Appalachian Spring.

The main theme is from a Shaker Hymn.

This is in a fine tradition of “lifting” traditional melodies and making them shine in a new setting, a practice that was used by Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and other Greats.