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The Promise of Living

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Rob Archer
Mar 10, 2010
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This is absolutely marvelous.

Aaron Copland is my favorite composer. His piece, "The Promise of Living," has been set to clips of old 8- and 16-mm films of Americans doing what they do... Living.

Gorgeous.

Aaron Copland's music, especially "Appalachian Spring," would be the closest thing to God I could think of, if I believed in gods.

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