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The Eastern European Immigrant who created the Musical Soundtrack for America If America has a musical identity or musical DNA, conductor JoAnn Falletta says it was created by an Eastern European immigrant who composed music in his Brooklyn apartment. His name: Aaron Copland.

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JoAnn Falletta is the Music Director for the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Virginia Symphony. She has an all-Copland CD on the Naxos label (Naxos 8559240).

Find out more about JoAnn Falletta, and read some of her amusing poetry about her day-to-day life as a conductor by visiting her website.

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