Well howdy pardner! What’s saying you and me git us a couple bottles of sarsaparilly and head on down to yonder ballet and watch them bally dancers dance all purdy like?

Iconic American composer Aaron Copland wrote a number of ballets based on iconic American themes – Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Rodeo. Today’s piece is the opening movement of Rodeo, titled “Buckaroo Holiday.” May it bring out the inner cowboy in you.

Dovetailing off of yesterday’s post, another fanfare; this one, to me, feels more appropriate for the first morning of the New Year.

Aaron Copland wrote the Fanfare for the Common Man in 1942 in response to the US joining into World War II. The title says it all; this fanfare is for YOU.