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Abraham Lincoln: A Portrait In Music And Words At the height of WWII, Aaron Copland used excerpts from Lincoln's speeches, combined with musical quotations from American songs, to create one of ...

Music: Conductor’s Portrait. 2 minute read. TIME. April 25, 1932 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... It was abstract, idealistic music, touched only here & there with humor sounded by piccolos and the xylophone.

Russian dynamo Valery Gergiev — world-famous conductor and tireless promoter of his nation’s rich musical heritage — sits for his GREAT PERFORMANCES portrait, Wednesday, May 28 at 9 p.m. (ET ...

Classical music is rooted in Western Europe. But these days, some of the world's most innovative orchestra conductors come from Latin America. The best known is Venezuela's Gustavo Dudamel.