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Keeping Score: Copland and the American Sound

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This edition of "Keeping Score" is one of only two I've seen, but in looking at the ratings of the others available, I must rate this one tops, too! This makes for great viewing, not only for those familiar with Copland and his "American" sound, but for those willing to listen and learn and discover this terrific music. This state-of-the-art video presentation picks up where Leonard Bernstein's pioneering work in this field left off. In fact, Bernstein's spirit often lurks beneath the surface. If you have the other installments of "Keeping Score", add this to your collection.

This is an excellent resource for those teaching academic music classes such as a college music survey course or IB Music at the high school level. My students and I enjoyed it a great deal. The level of discussion is uniformly high but accessible. The level of playing is tremendous.

This show is about an American hero who rose to the occasion to create music for a troubled country. We really could have used someone like him during the past few years! The documentary looks at a part of Copland's life that spans an important point in our history. MTT does a masterful job at balancing the music with the talk and the hour goes by quickly. The performance is superb and has a terrific feature where you can take yourself from the audience and pretend that you are listening with the Musicians onstage.

Love this DVD. Would like to get the rest of MTT's educational programs. Glad to see that he has stepped in to fill Leonard Bernstein's shoes....and those are big shoes to fill.

Great DVD! Very educational and artistitcally wonderful. I was completely engrossed in the whole story of Aaron Coplands' life & music told by Michael Thomas( Music director of the SFO) as well his music played by the San Francisco Orchestra.
I would highly recommend this DVD and well as others by Michael Thomas and the San Francisco Orchestra.

AMAZON needs to re-think their idea of identifying classical music performers! Since when is a CONDUCTOR an "ACTOR"? Since when is identification of a conductor or orchestra, etc. "STARRING"?

This musical blasphemy needs to be corrected ASAP.