Rick Perry's Anti-Gay Ad Features Music by Gay Composer Aaron Copland

The troupe's premiere of "Rodeo," deMille's ballet of the American West, set to the familiar Aaron Copland score (unfortunately, a recorded version here; this is one ballet that craves an orchestra) gave Learned an opportunity to shine as The Champion

By Alan G. Artner, Special to the Tribune More than 50 years ago, on a tour of the Soviet Union, Leonard Bernstein pointed out affinities between the music of D.

Several struggling music students will be able to struggle a little less, thanks to the generosity of the late Beatrice Schacher-Meyer, who left Queens College's Aaron Copland School of Music (ACSM) a surprise gift of $1.6 million for student

By Alan G. Artner, Special to the Tribune More than 50 years ago, on a tour of the Soviet Union, Leonard Bernstein pointed out affinities between the music of D.

As the Harvard Political Review points out, the music that plays in the background of Perry's ad is inspired by or directly taken from Aaron Copland, a gay composer. A Harvard music major noticed the the connection and sent