Aaron Copland; Appalachian Spring Suite

Aaron Copland (1900-1990); Appalachian Spring Suite.
Performed by Eiji Oue & Minesota Orchestra...

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

Its June 2024. No matter how many times I listen to this, I never get tired of it. I really like Copland. I absolutely love this piece. It is the most beautiful symphony ever written. Appalachian has its own music ... from Texas

[@guycothran6706]

I live in Appalachia, the North Carolina mountains. This music captures the soul of these mountains I love so deeply.

[@jessleslie7473]

he imagined something we always knew and never thought

[@RichardErickson-yg9lg]

I am 71 I've spent my life as a plumber and graphi designer,commercial illustrator, photographer, saw player in Europe and Georgia. Ultralight pilot and scuba diver, no smuck and have listened to this symohiby thousand of times painting it drawing it meditating, forgive my Midwest manners to say thank you Aaron, my friebd by music a public expression of your friendship thru disaster sfter disaster in my life YOU YOU THID SYMPHONY SAVED NY KIFE ,. TWICE and years of physical therapy listening again, over and over this sympohony. Thank you thank you my dear friend I am listening to you live now. May God bless your fans who live listening niwm

[@gregmulligan8702]

I love this symphony, what a joy it is to listen to.

[@IRUKANJI]

As an American I may be biased. I love my country. and perhaps that is why I consider this the most beautiful symphony ever written. It fully captures the most beautiful aspects of my homeland.

[@chasfleming]

I’m English and I agree.

[@mvygantas]

This is without a doubt *not* the most beautiful symphony ever written but it is a great work of art from a jewish american composer

[@charleswest6372]

Copland was a genius.

[@skynotaname2229]

You are biased, no maybe about it, but it is a beautiful symphony and it's absolutely iconic though it reflects an era of usa that I think is decaying.

[@SaundersE5]

It always takes my breath away, a truly beautiful piece of music. Timeless.

[@lesperry5327]

As an Englishman, for me Ralph Vaughan Williams is by far my most favourite composer and Aaron Copland is by far my most favourite American composer. I have no musical skill or knowledge and rely only on what I can hear but to me they both have a lot in common. Both can evoke many different emotions. Gorgeous stuff.

[@christophercox8237]

Nah! You have probably the most valuable of all musical skills. The ability to appreciate the music you hear and be moved by it. Without skills like that, what good would music be? I’m writing this now, from a parking lot in Big Stone Gap Virginia, listening to those peace and watching the Appalachian Spring breaking out all around me. Hope you are well.

[@yoddytoddy]

Home nation composers capture the spirit and identities of their country. Think Sibelius to Finland and Grieg to Norway as two good examples.

[@SaundersE5]

Whenever I listen to this I’m full of wonder and a deep sense of appreciation.

[@jasondavis8246]

I grew up in Tennessee and can follow the morning sun rising over the mountains in this song. Makes me happy and sad all at the same time.

[@twilfits]

Sometimes they're the same Just emotion

[@tamelataylor7384]

I used to drive my Volkswagen camper through the Roaring Forks Motor Nature Trail on the edge of Gatlinburg, TN with this playing on the stereo. I swear this was a narrative to the beauty that surrounded me.

[@derkmanley3220]

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[@derkmanley3220]

At the End of Copeland's Appalachian Spring, The music is So Simple, and So Lovely, It's as if Copeland wrote the Thematic Background for God's Creation of Heaven and Earth. 🌏 . Think and Pray. Fathfuly Yours, The Rev. D.B. Manley, PhD

[@guycothran6706]

True, on a very deep and spiritually powerful level. My pilgrimage led our family to move to Appalachia in the late 90's. Your soul, your ancestors, and the great creator of us all knows where you need to be and will lead you there if you are only willing.

[@derkmanley3220]

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[@derkmanley3220]

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[@LRH143]

Listening to this to reduce my stress and anxiety level.

[@DawnDaras]

I love how it incorporates Simple Gifts - It's a gift to be simple, it's a gift to be free, it's a gift to come down where we are to be. And when we find ourselves in the place just right it will be in the valley of love and delight

[@mallom6226]

This song brings me back to autumn as a kid in Connecticut and listening to classical music with my Dad in his study.

[@matthewbrazille9849]

Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite is beautiful beyond words. It always gives me visions of our country's beautiful Landscapes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. May God continue to bless our great and beautiful country.

[@sophierobbins7237]

Amen to that. America matters. xx

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

My favorite piece from Aaron Copeland.So soothing and beautiful to me.

[@TyMoore95503]

Aaron Copeland captured in music all of the hope and promise of what our country could be. Perhaps someday we can actually live up to the vision he captured in "Simple Gifts."

[@ssalerno9200]

Yes!

[@allenhubbard7090]

"Simple Gifts" is a Shaker hymn'

[@Jeff-uj8xi]

And comes along something like Trump who's sole purpose is to destroy and hate.

[@danielclaeys7598]

The Appalachians have a music all to their own. The oldest range on Earth becons the traveler to enter not unlike a loved grandparent. This Copeland arrangement puts the listener in harmony with these great mountains, full of life and of a hope, a quizzical juxtaposition of what is ancient and the continuum of the new. Come and be a part of something that is so much bigger than you.

[@chrispantazi81]

Really well put!!! Beautiful words and description of this composition that honors the beautiful mystery of creation. There is a divine essence captured by Copeland. I keep thinking to myself “is it the parallel movement within the harmonies that gives this piece it’s character, or, is it the regenerative effect as a whole, etc, etc, etc...?” However, just like the most beautiful things in creation it is better to stand in awe and reverence at the beauty of it all and be eternally grateful.

[@jamesthiele3866]

Aaron Copland definitely had all his colors together before painting 🖌️ this masterpiece. Such beauty to behold.

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

My favorite piece by Aaron Copeland.So beautiful and soothing to me.Reminiscent o Connecticut, Hardford and listening to classical music with dad and family.

[@sylviabruton1745]

This magnificent performance captures so beautifully the Appalachian beauty and in Simple Gifts takes the audience to heaven!

[@hectorbarrionuevo6034]

Love that musical "populism" of Copland: sweet, placid harmony; fanfare-like, brassy passages; folk-like, pastoral sections; and colorful orchestration !!! The music is energetic, peaceful, melancholic, static, optimistic ....

[@yaffayafo82]

Quite American.

[@jamesthiele3866]

Very colorful indeed.

[@Axgoodofdunemaul]

Like Beethoven's 9th is the anthem of free Europe, this is our anthem of all our hopes for America.

[@yellolab09]

Static? Maybe those moments in the first movement..but this music has ALWAYS represented motion to me That emerging first movement always feels like the promise of the eastern sun's first rays at dawn: A sense of promise every dawn offers the 'common man' and woman Maybe it's because I hear it as a modern dancer.

[@hectorbarrionuevo6034]

@@yellolab09 Thanks for your comment: well said ! And yes, it was probably some sections that sounded static (as in nature-depicting, always gorgeous). Best !

[@AndrewRodman1998]

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[@squirrelvert]

I'm not certain Aaron Copland ever visited Appalachia. (Brooklyn-born and raised and, to my knowledge, stayed in NY throughout his lifetime. Probably traveled to Europe a great deal; lived there for awhile, even.) If those of you *from* Appalachia appreciate this song and 'recognize' something familiar in it -- Copland must have had a very powerful imagination. (Or else you do. :P)

[@SaundersE5]

And that is part of its beauty.

[@OMEGALFA.]

A truly heartfelt performance of Copland's soulful and fiery composition. BRAVO. BRAVE. BRAVI.

[@tbed2010]

Whenever I hear Appalachian Spring, I think of America's better angels (Reconstruction, the New Deal, WWII). This song was written in 1944, but it evokes 1867 and 1935 Americana to me. It must be the Shaker tune 'Simple Gifts'.

[@danielm17]

The New Deal elongated the Depression and promoted victimization and holding others accountable for yourself, nothing good about it.

[@joshuaglassman8949]

World War II was also pretty bad. I thought that was at least common knowledge.

[@tbed2010]

@@joshuaglassman8949 I think you realize that I am not praising war, but the spirit of national purpose and common good that helped Americans get thru it. No one can deny that Reconstruction gave hope to millions of freed slaves (albeit brief hope). No one can deny that the New Deal gave hope to millions of Americans of all races and creeds.

[@bloombloom271]

@@tbed2010 "hope"on the Titanic of misplaced dependence.

[@jacobmcneal3011]

“The Reconstruction” was a joke. Northerners came and occupied the South. The Blacks were free in name only. Jim Crowe was rampant…

[@aliciacarafi420]

You can "see" the spring flowing... Copland, a genious... 😍

[@andrewcooper5546]

I gloriously adore this piece. I lose actual weight by how much I cry while listening to this

[@waynemarvin5661]

???????

[@jillpadawer7187]

Beautiful video imagery and music. But!! Please credit the musicians.

[@charleslargent8077]

Me too, it always brings tears to my eyes, and has for the 65 years I've listened to it. It is the music I want played at my funeral. It will bring my life to a joyous end.

[@lynettelewis5688]

My favorite piece from Aaron Copeland for over 30 years. So soothing and beautiful to me.

[@kirstenhansen2999]

I understand that there is a poem called Appalachen Spring ...could be found on the Internet. Martha Graham liked the poem.

[@GammaNu955]

Yes it is

[@lizafield9002]

Same, since childhood. I live in these mtns on the south. This music helping me survive the current dictatorship without jumping off a bluff.

[@matildetessari9425]

Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite synthesizes in sounds the enormous beauty of nature that is the work of our Creator ♥

[@joaobastosO_O]

im sorry, im atheist

[@berakha111]

I know it’s supposed to be about the Appalachian mountains, but it makes me think of all sorts of scenery from the western United States, especially during the 1800’s. From cowboys herding 1000’s of cattle, to the many Chinese immigrants who worked on laying down railroad tracks, to vistas of canyons, deserts and the Rockies… I listen to this suite many evenings, winding down for bed. To me, it’s an iconic classic. Pure perfection, and very patriotic. We’re so very blessed to live in this nation of freedom and natural wonders. I thank God every night as I pray with my precious sons.

[@GordonLF]

It seems that the makers of this video had your same feeling because for some of the pictures 4:40 or 13:59 they have chosen landscapes from the western US.

[@catherinechilton2093]

Listen to Copeland's Rodeo!

[@robertthomas7343]

my best friend in college did 2 tours of duty in Nam . He was attending school on the GI bill . We were in the foothills of the Daniel Boone National Forest . Luckily I experienced Aaaron Copland through this relationship .

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

One of Compland's best compsitions.It fascinates me from my youth to this day.This music is so beautiful and soothing..❤

[@AndrewRodman1998]

This is my absolute favorite classical piece to listen to if I’m taking a nap or relaxing at home

[@jessemossberg8108]

No piece of music makes me feel more American. So evocative. Thanks to Aaron Copeland, and to all who have come before- written on this 155th observance of Memorial Day, 1868-2023.

[@SaundersE5]

It really is a masterpiece!

[@rogerjackson5218]

One of the great composers of America, we simply love his creations. 24:43

[@SaundersE5]

A quintessential American masterpiece.

[@NipGrizzlySays]

Exquisite rendition of an American classic. 😀

[@kokomanation]

I really love Copland and I am from Greece

[@hazeym1]

Always lovely and love the imagery too! Thank you!

[@rosiec5168]

I have synesthesia and this is one of my favorite pieces of music to “see” 😍💐

[@pipermcpickles5283]

Oh my gosh, me too!! 💕

[@tylernfilms]

This is my most favorite KZbin comment of all time. 😭 that just sounds so beautiful!

[@johnvanalstine9645]

Describe what it looks like please

[@rosiec5168]

@@johnvanalstine9645 I couldn’t possibly, it’s always moving & changing with the music, but lots of gold, greens yellows and very light colors that move in time. It’s hard to explain, always has been lol

[@rosiec5168]

@@tylernfilms :) 🤍 I wish I could share what it looks like with you!

[@robertvodnoy4234]

This is one of the best performances of this suite. Eiji Oue's background as a ballet conductor really shows, but he really brings the expressive quality and the structure of the suite into relief. BRAVO Minnesota Orchestra, too

[@daviddebarros9555]

I love songs of Mr. Aaron Copland !

[@thewayofway1]

Absolutely adore this piece ❤️

[@DelvingEye]

Opening and closing will make you weep. Everything in between will make you rejoice. Thank you for posting this music and beautiful photos. Happy Thanksgiving TO ALL 2021 !!

[@ellisonhamilton3322]

This is one of my most favorite pieces of music. It expresses tonally my sentiments about our beautiful nation. This was a very capable rendering. Thank you for sharing this with such beautiful landscape imagery. Really enjoyed it!! 👍❤

[@TCoupe60]

This performance and recording is both sensitive and gutsy. Great work all around!

[@dh1901]

This song played in my head many times years ago when I was thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.

[@farkaskj]

AT 88.

[@lovesings2us]

Thank you for sharing this beauty!

[@davidfriese9998]

Beautiful!

[@howardmiller8012]

Kudos to the Minnesota musicians who performed this marvelous rendition - bravo/a~

[@amarpreetsingh7066]

Most delightful.....pondering

[@carolynmoore6636]

Bravo nice job Aaron Copland.

[@GiorgioRizzoMusic]

Extremely beautiful! Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about it.

[@kingofguitar]

one of the treasures of the music universe.

[@thethikboy]

How Copland has infused the intoxicating grandeur of the American landscape into this ballet - yes it's a ballet - is extraordinary

[@wsjohnston3956]

The music of Heaven....

[@johnfrantz3945]

I'm not familiar with the Minnesota Orchestra or Eiji Oue, but this has become one of my favorite performances. I've heard many, and this is up there with Bernstein--and my favorite--Walter Susskind and The London Philharmonic (from the '50s).

[@lorilynn244]

This is for our souls 💖🦋

[@waynemarvin5661]

Nobody is mentioning that part of this is an old Shaker hymn. The kids (if they knew) would say it's a "rip off". But of course, it's a homage. Copeland's incorporation into this suite is masterful.

[@hemiolaguy]

The Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" wasn't well known before Copland included it in this piece. Thanks to him, the melody is now known and loved all over the world.

[@Kai-715]

18:20 I was singing "Simple Gifts" and my mom said it reminded her of a part in Appalachian Spring- I didn't know about it before but it's so cool!

[@myekal147]

At 19 minutes I hear my current practice piece - Simple Gifts - for violin...NICE!

[@sunspotdawn1261]

Beautiful. Happy Spring 2020!

[@ellencamano4197]

Happy end of Summer; Happy Autumn....... :o)

[@richardkmason4351]

C'est magnifique.

[@petswan]

Pretty photos of mountain scenes. I can't believe that all of them are of the Appalachians. The Minnesota Orchestra delivers here a very fine recording.

[@bp42357]

That photo early on (about the 4 minute mark) is almost certainly in the Rockies.

[@organbuilder272]

They are all part of the Appalachians, different sections with different names but they run from New Hampshire until they finally are reduced to little more than hills in Georgia. Each geographic section has a particular from and beauty. People moved there off the coastal flatlands to get away from the growing pressures of population and to mine the coal. Like Cotton in the South, they became slaves to a single source of prosperity and continue to do so today. The beautiful of these mountains belies a dirty secret of poverty and being a part of a situation that may never be resolved. I believe this is less about the mountains than the people who live cradled in the valleys between the tired ancient once proud mountains formed by folded layers of hard granite crust distorted by the inexorable pressure from the thrust of the Atlantic plate. What happened millions of years ago, now worn, and smoothed into softly rounded remnants of peaks is only a small example of what the East Coast must have looked like. This one one of the very few pieces of "Modern" compositions that is tolerable to listen to.

[@glennmangold5555]

Of course I could be wrong, but based on hiking and camping all along the Appalachian range from Georgia to Maine, 3:38 and 14:17 are not Appalachian mountains. Again, based on hiking trips, 3:38 looks like either the Rockies or the Sierras, and 14:17 looks very much like the Rockies in Glacier Park, Montana. The rest of the photos look like the Appalachians.

[@ThereIsOnlyChange]

@@organbuilder272 All of these photos are most certainly NOT the Appalachians. And perhaps you should double-check your history and geology before writing about it with such authority. "Appalachian Spring" as a piece of music most certainly represents NATURE. Spend one week outside in these mountains in the spring, and you will actually understand it.

[@lizafield9002]

@@organbuilder272 no, they aren't all of the Appalachian chain, which is as you say way way older than steep jagged bare rock. We do have many bald bluffs & old stripmines, & current Administration handing out lootpile of logging permits to fellow looters & robber barons, but God help us grow up, & may our ancient mtns endure.

[@georgepaciullo8260]

I love power and Beauty. Magnificent.

[@mjazzguitar]

1900 - 1990. That guy sure saw a lot of changes.

[@harryhope5492]

i so love this.

[@joeywilkes2860]

Nice music 👍 chilling with my that loves this music.,...

[@joeywilkes2860]

Lady

[@paperdoodles2497]

what were you trying to say?

[@jaymcgann6637]

I am from a city where the Appalachian Highlands run out into the Lake Ontario plain. I loved spring in the rolling green hills of Central NY and the Finger Lakes more than anything. The first time I heard Appalachian Spring my only thought was, Copland has it, perfectly.

[@michaelweathers7314]

One of my favorites--exquisitely done!

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

Aaron Copeland ,composer, publicist, pianist, conductor and teacher.The style of Aaron Copeland's music is sometimes considered to be the most expressive of the American spirit, sometimes described as" populist"

[@sapaclothing8690]

The best orchestration piece ever.

[@paulreaney4497]

Oh AMERICA!! I never tire of this beautiful music/scenery I don’t want to spoil it all: but why oh why do you have your current government/President!!??

[@Dylonely42]

Simply gorgeous.

[@lucasmallmann3579]

Wow, amazing !!!!

[@neclark08]

...what we know as "Appalachian Spring" wasn't composed as a 'symphony', or as a musical evocation of any particular season in some specific part of the U.S.A. It was actually written between 1942--1944 as the score for Modern Dance choreographer Martha Graham -- under the working title "Ballet for Martha", and the initial requirement that the score used no more than 12 instruments (reputedly because the venue's orchestra pit was so small that only 12 musicians could Fit!) It was Graham who chose the familiar title shortly before it premiered on 30 October, 1944. I Prefer the ballet score -- it allows every instrument to be heard, and it retains several lovely 'transitions' later removed by Copland when he adapted it to a full orchestra. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring?wprov=sfla1

[@phwbooth]

When Copland wrote this piece, he had no intention of calling it 'Appalachian Spring'. The title was invented by Martha Graham.

[@MysteeriusFrend]

The beginning always reminds me of Jupiter from Gustav Holtz's The Planets suite. 🎶 🎵

[@littlefroe3316]

It’s gorgeous

[@scotty5144]

I’m thinking this would be a good tune to play in my earbuds while raking leaves.😎

[@donnahibler8374]

The music is classic Americana.

[@joejuliogarciadebidegain1466]

beim Anhoeres dieses schoene Musikstueck erinnere ich mich an alte Westernfilme, die in den 60 Jahren im Fernseher gelaufen sind...., wie zum Beispiel, Bonanza, um nur einen zu nennen.

[@nancywarren]

I wonder if orchestral music in America will ever be this good again.

[@jamesthiele3866]

Oh yes, 🎶 will never die it will survive. It's foundation is silence.

[@allenwebber1951]

Poets: Do you hear the insistence of the anapest in this ballet music? Short-short-long. It's the rhythmic backbone of this composition.

[@andreiyakushau4564]

Great All ! :)

[@lambertiaj]

Happy 120th birthday

[@jeffedmondson6962]

its funny

[@WVislandia]

23:38 Photo is of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia

[@nikkischlep8288]

Thanks for verifying the landscape! “The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature,” Thomas Jefferson wrote of the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in 1783. “This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic."

[@amarpreetsingh7066]

.....simple gifts......applachian spring....fanfare common man........4 dance rodeo...crikey...need a coffee now

[@Xevose]

Dance now whever you may be!

[@sierrasky3287]

💚🙏🏻

[@_t8512]

2:43 ❤

[@fasiyamemonbenzel192]

as a respiratorist thrapyist at memorial the withchy of all witch. vision vision quest is my saroor. thank you and thats all world

[@Ron-kp5ow]

13:40 chills up my spine, everytime. Also, I need a better amp.

[@jondishmonmusicandstuff2753]

Corral and shakerdan sounds just like this

[@maryelgin4491]

The perfect Thanksgiving Day peace.

[@catherinechilton2093]

The perfect Easter piece!

[@markherron1407]

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[@kims0730]

Let’s not forget the real defenders of the beautiful lands. The Indigenous people of Turtle Island.

[@tazpoochie]

My brain has just put the trash out

[@bloombloom271]

I like to let the music just sing to me.

[@edenlewis1402]

10:50

[@user-cx4ju3vc8h]

10:13 pm why is the we left out of Copeland?

[@modernaries9852]

This should be used in Fantasia Borealis

[@Dylonely42]

20:52