Fanfare for the Common Man

"Fanfare for the Common Man" is a famous piece of orchestral music.

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Orchestral - Music

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One of Aaron Copland's most popular works, it is a short piece scored for brass and percussion was written in 1942 at the request of the conductor Eugene Goossens. The fanfare was also used as the main theme of the fourth movement of Copland's Third Symphony.

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Aaron Copland - Brass - Percussion - 1942 - Conductor - Eugene Goossens - Theme - Movement - Third Symphony

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Emerson Lake & Palmer's recording from the album Works Volume I (1977) became the band's biggest hit when an edited version was released as a single that year. (ELP had previously recorded Copland's "Hoedown" from Rodeo for the album Trilogy (1972).)

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Emerson Lake & Palmer - Works Volume I - 1977 - Rodeo - 1972

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