About 11 or 12 years ago, as a child, I did a ballet dance to the music at 16:10. For years I tried to remember the name. Just recently, I saw a commercial on UA-cam for beef. It was the same song! Suddenly, I remembered the word ‘Rodeo’! I decided to go on UA-cam and type in Classical Ballet Music Rodeo. Lo and behold: I found this video! I’ve looked for this song for 12 years people!! Plus, this is really great music to celebrate my findings to. 😄
I remember hearing an interview with Copland where he angrily stated “why are people pronouncing it ro-DAY-o? It’s RO-deo because I composed it about...you know...A RODEO!” 😊😊😊
I find this so funny! It feels so pretentious to say "ro-DAY-o" around people who aren't familiar with the piece, but it also feels weird to say it "RO -deo" too because the music world has pretty much solidified the other pronunciation as "correct". But either way, technically the word "rodeo" is just a borrowed word from Spanish that actually IS pronounced "ro-DAY-o". It means 'to surround or encircle'. I still feel bad and find it funny that Copland didn't get his pronunciation to stick! One more little interesting fact about borrowed words from Spanish-- the word 'buckaroo' is literally just a bad/americanized pronunciation of the Spanish word 'vaquero' which means cowboy.
I wonder if Steve Hale would feel the same way if he knew more about Copland's life. More often than not, those who post about the "greatness of this nation" these days are inclined to see the world through the eyes of ignorance. Aaron Copland was one of the greats!
Such a wonderful picture: as a horse person who is deeply into historic tack, I am so thrilled to see this: a western sidesaddle! So different from the English sidesaddles -- and yet so perfect, adapted for the needs of rough country riding, including tapaderos on the stirrup (that's the leather covering which shielded the rider's foot from contact with thorny, rough brush, and adapted from the Spanish / Mexican tradition.
FINALLY I "get" this piece. Drove me nuts, playing the bass. My wonderful teacher, Mrs. Hawthorne, really helped. We beat it out, plus she gave me a metronome. Now I hear it. REALLY DO! DC Winter 1974. Have always adore the trumpet's passages!
first time listening to this, but based on the tempo, tone and style of most of the segments, this sounds like music that could easily be featured in a John Wayne movie.
MrPerfesser Which "god" created it? The god of the millions of citizens who were living here pre-1492? Or the 'mythological' god of the old testament? Or, maybe Allah, the god of 1.5 billion muslims? Oh, wait, what about the "natural forces" over a couple billion years that made the "Great American West?" Yeah, that might be the ticket! Me? I'm just gonna sit back and let Copland's music sweep over me and play the slides in my head of all the magnificent scenes I and my "bride" have witnessed over the past half century. Yeah, that's the ticket!!
I love this. Introduced to Copland by Spike Lee's "He Got Game" back in the late 90's. Went exploring and discovered the rest of his work.New world classics are fantastic. Thanks for posting.
ik vind deze muziek zo mooi-de saturday night walz--i like this part very very munch, its brilliant and easy in composing, but it touch me very munch in my soul, the solitude of the plains and nowhere to go to...........brilliant
Listened to this off of our local classical radio station, 90.9 FM. I thought I was listening to a cover by an Emerson, Lake and Palmer song called Hoedown, but I guess ELP covered it.
Bernstein too fast AND idiomatic. Dorati gives it the "punch" Copland did in his own, but has more finesse as a conductor. Years in Minneapolis - the Dems in that state went by the "Farm-Labor Party" for over a century. Musta picked up the feel of the music from American farmers. Pastoral when appropriate, always vital. Like in the saddle of a live horse, or walking fields at sun up, or heading out to the milking barn to start the day. Grit, commitment, family, community, heart. The people that built the heartland - that's what's in the music. Oh and I forgot. Those old 3 mic Mercury recordings. Dang they were good. :)
I love this kind of "frontier music" (Appalachian Spring is marvelous too). Could anyone recommend some other music of similar style? I looked up Western genres, but all I could find were modern Western soundtracks, nothing as beautiful and optimistic as this. Grateful for any suggestions!
I don't know if you have listened to other pieces by Copland apart from this and "Appalachian Spring". If you haven't, then I would absolutely recommend you "Billy the Kid" (another ballet), and Copland's "Symphony no.3". Also "The red pony", it is a suite from a film soundtrack composed by Copland, it's less well-known than his "big" works but also good. As for similar music by other composers, maybe you would like "Grand Canyon suite" by Grofé? Or composers like Howard Hanson or Roy Harris (but I haven't listened to these myself so I can't guarantee anything)
This sounds so incredibly good for a fifties recording ! a little boxy perhaps but very clear and vivacious. Dorati was awesome in this repertoire. Thanks for posting. What's with people spelling the composer's name as Copeland, I wonder ?
It's most likely because his last name is pronounced "Copeland", as if there is an 'e' in the middle. People often resort to phonetic spelling when unsure of a word's proper spelling. =)
Why, when I hear the last movement, is it I have an overpowering desire for steak? And a nostalgic memory of the late Robert Mitchum? Copland is one of my favorite U. S. composers.
+OldManMontgomery To all those who replied with answers, thanks. However, the question was in the sense of irony and inside jokes. However, Copland is really one of my favorite composers.
That is near the end of a fabulous story of how that tune got from the trenches of Belgium to Kentucky to Rockville Maryland to Mr. Copeland To the American Beef Council. Throw in a 700 pound 'portable' tape recorder and the Smithsonian. All true.
When listening to this piece, my sister and I always fantasize about driving off from our daily minutiae, hands holding huge American flags out the windows in a fury of odd patriotism. This feeling amplified at the euphoric fervor of the last movement. lol
+PippoOfEarth I know a percussionist who played in the studio orchestra for the "Beef, it's what's for Dinner" commercial. This was back when there was a lot more money to be made in studio/commercial recordings. He said over the years, he's made over $100,000 in royalties from that one recording session.
lurking0death Yes. I can't stand seeing every comment on these videos being "I want beef for dinner lol" or "lol now I wanna eat beef." Not only is it so unoriginal because almost every other comment says that, but it totally cheapens these awesome compositions.
I just want to know where the 40 thumb-downs came from. If they like the piece, they had to like this recording, and if they don't, why did they listen at all?
Copland just "got it" when it came to the beauty and greatness what was America. For being a self proclaimed atheist he wrote the most "God conscious" music of all time. He is one of our great heritages, for sure.
Didn't like the beginning of the first movement-the players were not together, and it was a bit too slow. The Bernstein recording (as always) is much better.
They take it too fast. the rhythms aren't tight and the sense of pulse fails a lot of the time. I actually can't listen to this recording without feeling anxious.
+Dayna Waller I was going to say it's too slow. This is very whiz-bang snappy music with a lot of percussion. Maybe you need to chill with a nice cup of Delius! (whom I love!)
Me too. It's not meant to be a dirge. There are many recordings of Copland conducting his own work. He NEVER goes dirge even with slow pensive passages. He oughta know.
Saturday Night Waltz evokes such soaring feelings. An amazing piece of music
Copland captures the American spirit! This is exhilarating!
I love Aaron Copland. So very much!
If one is ever feeling down, you can't beat this medicine! I think I'm healed now! Thank's Aaron
Copeland captured the best of America and gave it a musical voice.
58 years ago. Music appreciation class. AHHH! The great memories.
About 11 or 12 years ago, as a child, I did a ballet dance to the music at 16:10. For years I tried to remember the name. Just recently, I saw a commercial on UA-cam for beef. It was the same song! Suddenly, I remembered the word ‘Rodeo’! I decided to go on UA-cam and type in Classical Ballet Music Rodeo. Lo and behold: I found this video!
I’ve looked for this song for 12 years people!!
Plus, this is really great music to celebrate my findings to. 😄
Together with Bernsteins splendid recording is this performance by far the best you can listen
One of the ABSOLUTE CLASSICS in American symphonic music. Fills my heart with joy to listen to it every time! : - )
I remember playing this with the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra a few years back. Easily one of my top five pieces I've ever played!
I remember hearing an interview with Copland where he angrily stated “why are people pronouncing it ro-DAY-o? It’s RO-deo because I composed it about...you know...A RODEO!”
😊😊😊
You mean a rodeo isn't pronounced ro day o either? I've never heard it pronounced any other way.
I find this so funny! It feels so pretentious to say "ro-DAY-o" around people who aren't familiar with the piece, but it also feels weird to say it "RO -deo" too because the music world has pretty much solidified the other pronunciation as "correct".
But either way, technically the word "rodeo" is just a borrowed word from Spanish that actually IS pronounced "ro-DAY-o". It means 'to surround or encircle'. I still feel bad and find it funny that Copland didn't get his pronunciation to stick!
One more little interesting fact about borrowed words from Spanish-- the word 'buckaroo' is literally just a bad/americanized pronunciation of the Spanish word 'vaquero' which means cowboy.
I always thought those snooty people were pronouncing it wrong
@@rtyria Snigger. The same lot probably who call Nicaragua "Knee-her-rah-hwah".
Right. Back in the 1930s my granddad was a roe-DAY-oh clown up in Heh-LEEEEE-nah Montana.
This music is amazing. It definitely cheers me up.
sometimes we forget how awesome this nation is. Arron Copeland reminds us to be proud Americans.
Supernumery, I hope you're not a U.S. citizen. I also hope you live outside the U.S.
His first name is not Arron. It is Aaron, and his surname is Copland, not Copeland. Such pride, and the name all wrong!
Gordon Johnson his point still stands...
Well that was petty. No wonder we cannot handle real issues.. Too much nitpicking.
I wonder if Steve Hale would feel the same way if he knew more about Copland's life. More often than not, those who post about the "greatness of this nation" these days are inclined to see the world through the eyes of ignorance. Aaron Copland was one of the greats!
Such a wonderful picture: as a horse person who is deeply into historic tack, I am so thrilled to see this: a western sidesaddle! So different from the English sidesaddles -- and yet so perfect, adapted for the needs of rough country riding, including tapaderos on the stirrup (that's the leather covering which shielded the rider's foot from contact with thorny, rough brush, and adapted from the Spanish / Mexican tradition.
FINALLY I "get" this piece. Drove me nuts, playing the bass. My wonderful teacher, Mrs. Hawthorne, really helped. We beat it out, plus she gave me a metronome. Now I hear it. REALLY DO! DC Winter 1974. Have always adore the trumpet's passages!
It must have been a joy to have played the trumpet part of this wonderful music !!! Also, the Percussion Section is outstanding!!!
3rd movemenrt is amazing, get u tears of how it is fantastic and grandioso
first time listening to this, but based on the tempo, tone and style of most of the segments, this sounds like music that could easily be featured in a John Wayne movie.
All American Music ! No one does it like it Copland
Let's not forget Applachian Spring. America's finest composer of all. And this is a musical masterpiece.
my new ipod soundtrack, to rampaging down random back country trails at various parks
It was the hand of God that created the majesty and beauty of the American West. All Copland did was set it all to music.
MrPerfesser Which "god" created it? The god of the millions of citizens who were living here pre-1492? Or the 'mythological' god of the old testament? Or, maybe Allah, the god of 1.5 billion muslims?
Oh, wait, what about the "natural forces" over a couple billion years that made the "Great American West?" Yeah, that might be the ticket!
Me? I'm just gonna sit back and let Copland's music sweep over me and play the slides in my head of all the magnificent scenes I and my "bride" have witnessed over the past half century. Yeah, that's the ticket!!
"The foolish one says in his heart, "There is no God"--- Psalms 14:1
You cant use what God said to prove God... that would be circular logic
cjmmjc: That God said it is proof enough He exists.
How do yo know Gd said it?/
Again circular logic...
You cannot prove faith, by quoting faith
For me, the bit that begins at 12:00 is the greatest!
Love Dorati and the old Minneapolis Symphony....
Nothing like the feeling this gives me.
Classic photograph... A young lady and her "Horsey Doo"
thank you for writing out the episodes!! makes us enjoy music even more.
Luv Copland!
This suite must be so much fun for the musicians to play!
Blows my mind.
Indeed. What a lovely girl so fitting to this wonderful music.
In love with this photo
Hell lol I knew that girl, met up with her somewhere west of laramie. This is just great.
100% American.
As American as Mary Pickford as America's Sweetheart .
Addicted to this suit since the movie 'it takes two' with the Olsen Twins haha
Best ever👌👌☺️
I love this.
Introduced to Copland by Spike Lee's "He Got Game" back in the late 90's. Went exploring and discovered the rest of his work.New world classics are fantastic. Thanks for posting.
TooManyBrackets: Guess I've got to appreciate Spike Lee to some degree if he's brought at least one person to music such as Mr. Copland's.
LOVE COPLAND!!
Fun cowboy music!
ik vind deze muziek zo mooi-de saturday night walz--i like this part very very munch, its brilliant and easy in composing, but it touch me very munch in my soul, the solitude of the plains and nowhere to go to...........brilliant
Thanks.
Just the greatest!!!!! Thanks!!!!
ride em cowgirl!
Thank you Eugene Buck.
Laughingly fun, brings a smile to your lips.
Brasilian Love you brother
Listened to this off of our local classical radio station, 90.9 FM. I thought I was listening to a cover by an Emerson, Lake and Palmer song called Hoedown, but I guess ELP covered it.
This is Doc Watson's girl - cf. "Tennessee Stud."
Bernstein too fast AND idiomatic. Dorati gives it the "punch" Copland did in his own, but has more finesse as a conductor. Years in Minneapolis - the Dems in that state went by the "Farm-Labor Party" for over a century. Musta picked up the feel of the music from American farmers. Pastoral when appropriate, always vital. Like in the saddle of a live horse, or walking fields at sun up, or heading out to the milking barn to start the day. Grit, commitment, family, community, heart. The people that built the heartland - that's what's in the music.
Oh and I forgot. Those old 3 mic Mercury recordings. Dang they were good. :)
My father made this recording !
He was the sound engineer?
Hoe Down! Is it just me who wants to shout 'Yeeeee haaaaaa!'
I love this kind of "frontier music" (Appalachian Spring is marvelous too). Could anyone recommend some other music of similar style? I looked up Western genres, but all I could find were modern Western soundtracks, nothing as beautiful and optimistic as this. Grateful for any suggestions!
I don't know if you have listened to other pieces by Copland apart from this and "Appalachian Spring". If you haven't, then I would absolutely recommend you "Billy the Kid" (another ballet), and Copland's "Symphony no.3". Also "The red pony", it is a suite from a film soundtrack composed by Copland, it's less well-known than his "big" works but also good.
As for similar music by other composers, maybe you would like "Grand Canyon suite" by Grofé?
Or composers like Howard Hanson or Roy Harris (but I haven't listened to these myself so I can't guarantee anything)
Randy Newman's theme to the film The Natural. You can hear a lot of Copland in it.
Add to film scores: "Field of Dreams"
How fun (y)
This sounds so incredibly good for a fifties recording ! a little boxy perhaps but very clear and vivacious. Dorati was awesome in this repertoire. Thanks for posting.
What's with people spelling the composer's name as Copeland, I wonder ?
It's most likely because his last name is pronounced "Copeland", as if there is an 'e' in the middle. People often resort to phonetic spelling when unsure of a word's proper spelling. =)
Yes I guess that must be it. Although I've never come across Batehoven or Beathoven yet :)
Chris Breemer Beethoven is a lot more well known than Mr. Copland
They take the Buckaroo Holiday so slowly! 😂😂😂
15:34 best!
15:30 The part we're all here for
yee haw...!
0:00 is a good place to start. ^
Why, when I hear the last movement, is it I have an overpowering desire for steak? And a nostalgic memory of the late Robert Mitchum?
Copland is one of my favorite U. S. composers.
OldManMontgomery And James Garner, and Sam Elliot.
+OldManMontgomery The last movement, Hoe-down, was used in the "Beef, it's what's for dinner" commercial.
+OldManMontgomery To all those who replied with answers, thanks.
However, the question was in the sense of irony and inside jokes.
However, Copland is really one of my favorite composers.
Your humor was not lost on everyone. I got it!
That is near the end of a fabulous story of how that tune got from the trenches of Belgium to Kentucky to Rockville Maryland to Mr. Copeland To the American Beef Council. Throw in a 700 pound 'portable' tape recorder and the Smithsonian. All true.
Suddenly want steak...
Such contrasts ..... Did anyone's music test the orchestra more than Aaron Copland's ??
I do like Morton Gould’s rendition best - but it’s always good, no matter who does it.
When listening to this piece, my sister and I always fantasize about driving off from our daily minutiae, hands holding huge American flags out the windows in a fury of odd patriotism. This feeling amplified at the euphoric fervor of the last movement. lol
beautiful wording. I think of women who don't give 2 shits what anyone thinks.......oh and gypsies...American Gypsies
Where did you get that awesome photograph?!!
This might be just me being picky, but for night Waltz I would have liked it to flow more...
Beef: It's what's for dinner.
+PippoOfEarth I know a percussionist who played in the studio orchestra for the "Beef, it's what's for Dinner" commercial. This was back when there was a lot more money to be made in studio/commercial recordings. He said over the years, he's made over $100,000 in royalties from that one recording session.
I hope you know that this piece was around long before the beef commercial trivialized it.
lurking0death Yes. I can't stand seeing every comment on these videos being "I want beef for dinner lol" or "lol now I wanna eat beef." Not only is it so unoriginal because almost every other comment says that, but it totally cheapens these awesome compositions.
@@B___T985 You come across as an elitist prick. What's wrong with advertising helping reach a wider audience? It's not like they changed the music.
@@wurlybird9 Thanks. I'm glad reaching out to simpletons brings you such amusement.
Aaron and I share the same birth date: November 14, albeit not the same year.
Recording av Millon day ago
I just want to know where the 40 thumb-downs came from. If they like the piece, they had to like this recording, and if they don't, why did they listen at all?
they were vegetarians.
WHERE ARE THE COWS ?
...no cow's, only ponies.
QuintEssential
Copland just "got it" when it came to the beauty and greatness what was America. For being a self proclaimed atheist he wrote the most "God conscious" music of all time. He is one of our great heritages, for sure.
16:10. Just...BEEF.
I swear 8:06 is from Appalachian Spring...
This is me.......
After a weekend of periodically hearing the likes of Donald Trump crow about being the next president, it's good to hear this, and another America.
Lampritch cry me a river.
Didn't like the beginning of the first movement-the players were not together, and it was a bit too slow. The Bernstein recording (as always) is much better.
Well, what do you think about Billy the Kid? He is my Cowboy
'merica
They take it too fast. the rhythms aren't tight and the sense of pulse fails a lot of the time. I actually can't listen to this recording without feeling anxious.
+Dayna Waller - i have another Bernstein recording that's faster than this and I prefer it.
+Dayna Waller I was going to say it's too slow. This is very whiz-bang snappy music with a lot of percussion. Maybe you need to chill with a nice cup of Delius! (whom I love!)
Pacing: sounds perfect to me!
Me too. It's not meant to be a dirge. There are many recordings of Copland conducting his own work. He NEVER goes dirge even with slow pensive passages. He oughta know.
Sounds Perfect! Must have never been to a country dance or a "Hoe Down"!
Aaron Copland was a gay Jewish New Yorker lmfaooo
gay
thank u for taking the bait i new someone would get butt hurt no worries man just troll
Joey Hofmann: What are you? Nine years old? Glad the music makes you gay.