As an American I may be biased. I love my country. and perhaps that is why I consider this the most beautiful symphony ever written. It fully captures the most beautiful aspects of my homeland.
Charles Fleming
Iβm English and I agree.
MEV
This is without a doubt not the most beautiful symphony ever written but it is a great work of art from a jewish american composer
Charles West
Copland was a genius.
Sky Notaname
You are biased, no maybe about it, but it is a beautiful symphony and it's absolutely iconic though it reflects an era of usa that I think is decaying.
Dean Moore
Aaron Copeland captured in music all of the hope and promise of what our country could be. Perhaps someday we can actually live up to the vision he captured in "Simple Gifts."
S Salerno
Yes!
Matthew Brazille
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite is beautiful beyond words. It always gives me visions of our country's beautiful Landscapes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. May God continue to bless our great and beautiful country.
Sophie Robbins
Amen to that. America matters. xx
Zuzanna Wisniewska
My favorite piece from Aaron Copeland.So soothing and beautiful to me.
Jason Davis
I grew up in Tennessee and can follow the morning sun rising over the mountains in this song. Makes me happy and sad all at the same time.
Daniel Claeys
The Appalachians have a music all to their own. The oldest range on Earth becons the traveler to enter not unlike a loved grandparent. This Copeland arrangement puts the listener in harmony with these great mountains, full of life and of a hope, a quizzical juxtaposition of what is ancient and the continuum of the new. Come and be a part of something that is so much bigger than you.
Christopher Pantazi
Really well put!!! Beautiful words and description of this composition that honors the beautiful mystery of creation. There is a divine essence captured by Copeland. I keep thinking to myself βis it the parallel movement within the harmonies that gives this piece itβs character, or, is it the regenerative effect as a whole, etc, etc, etc...?β However, just like the most beautiful things in creation it is better to stand in awe and reverence at the beauty of it all and be eternally grateful.
Robert Vodnoy
This is one of the best performances of this suite. Eiji Oue's background as a ballet conductor really shows, but he really brings the expressive quality and the structure of the suite into relief. BRAVO Minnesota Orchestra, too
James Thiele
Aaron Copland definitely had all his colors together before painting ποΈ this masterpiece. Such beauty to behold.
Matilde Tessari
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite synthesizes in sounds the enormous beauty of nature that is the work of our Creator β₯
JoΓ£o Bastos
im sorry, im atheist
Zuzanna Wisniewska
One of Compland's best compsitions.It fascinates me from my youth to this day.This music is so beautiful and soothing..β€
Mallo M
This song brings me back to autumn as a kid in Connecticut and listening to classical music with my Dad in his study.
Sylvia Bruton
This magnificent performance captures so beautifully the Appalachian beauty and in Simple Gifts takes the audience to heaven!
Lynette Lewis
My favorite piece from Aaron Copeland for over 30 years. So soothing and beautiful to me.
Kirsten Hansen
I understand that there is a poem called Appalachen Spring ...could be found on the Internet. Martha Graham liked the poem.
GammaNu955
Yes it is
Liza Field
Same, since childhood. I live in these mtns on the south. This music helping me survive the current dictatorship without jumping off a bluff.
ALPHA OMEGA
A truly heartfelt performance of Copland's soulful and fiery composition. BRAVO. BRAVE. BRAVI.
thethikboy
How Copland has infused the intoxicating grandeur of the American landscape into this ballet - yes it's a ballet - is extraordinary
Hector Barrionuevo
Love that musical "populism" of Copland: sweet, placid harmony; fanfare-like, brassy passages; folk-like, pastoral sections; and colorful orchestration !!! The music is energetic, peaceful, melancholic, static, optimistic ....
Yaffa Yafo
Quite American.
James Thiele
Very colorful indeed.
Axgoodofdunemaul
Like Beethoven's 9th is the anthem of free Europe, this is our anthem of all our hopes for America.
CD_ Promo
Static?Β Maybe those moments in the first movement..but this music has ALWAYS represented motion to me That emerging first movement always feels like the promise of the eastern sun's first rays at dawn: A sense of promise every dawn offers the 'common man' and woman
Maybe it's because I hear it as a modern dancer.
Hector Barrionuevo
@CD_ Promo Thanks for your comment: well said ! And yes, it was probably some sections that sounded static (as in nature-depicting, always gorgeous). Best !
Ellison Hamilton
This is one of my most favorite pieces of music. It expresses tonally my sentiments about our beautiful nation. This was a very capable rendering.
Thank you for sharing this with such beautiful landscape imagery. Really enjoyed it!! πβ€
ML7182
This is my absolute favorite classical piece to listen to if Iβm taking a nap or relaxing at home
Andrew Cooper
I gloriously adore this piece. I lose actual weight by how much I cry while listening to this
Wayne Marvin
???????
Jill Padawer
Beautiful video imagery and music. But!! Please credit the musicians.
Charles Largent
Me too, it always brings tears to my eyes, and has for the 65 years I've listened to it. It is the music I want played at my funeral. It will bring my life to a joyous end.
John Frantz
I'm not familiar with the Minnesota Orchestra or Eiji Oue, but this has become one of my favorite performances. I've heard many, and this is up there with Bernstein--and my favorite--Walter Susskind and The London Philharmonic (from the '50s).
Alicia CarafΓ
You can "see" the spring flowing... Copland, a genious... π
Richard K Mason
C'est magnifique.
Wayne Marvin
Nobody is mentioning that part of this is an old Shaker hymn. The kids (if they knew) would say it's a "rip off". But of course, it's a homage. Copeland's incorporation into this suite is masterful.
hemiolaguy
The Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" wasn't well known before Copland included it in this piece. Thanks to him, the melody is now known and loved all over the world.
KaΓζ΅·
18:20 I was singing "Simple Gifts" and my mom said it reminded her of a part in Appalachian Spring- I didn't know about it before but it's so cool!
Roger Jackson
One of the great composers of America, we simply love his creations. 24:43
Jesse Mossberg
No piece of music makes me feel more American. So evocative. Thanks to Aaron Copeland, and to all who have come beforeβ written on this 155th observance of Memorial Day, 1868-2023.
Zuzanna Wisniewska
My favorite piece by Aaron Copeland.So beautiful and soothing to me.Reminiscent o Connecticut, Hardford and listening to classical music with dad and family.
hazel mcc
Always lovely and love the imagery too! Thank you!
The Way of Way
Absolutely adore this piece β€οΈ
Steven King
one of the treasures of the music universe.
TCoupe60
This performance and recording is both sensitive and gutsy. Great work all around!
DelvingEye
Opening and closing will make you weep. Everything in between will make you rejoice. Thank you for posting this music and beautiful photos. Happy Thanksgiving TO ALL 2021 !!
Thomas X
Whenever I hear Appalachian Spring, I think of America's better angels (Reconstruction, the New Deal, WWII). This song was written in 1944, but it evokes 1867 and 1935 Americana to me. It must be the Shaker tune 'Simple Gifts'.
Joshua Glassman
World War II was also pretty bad. I thought that was at least common knowledge.
Thomas X
@Joshua Glassman I think you realize that I am not praising war, but the spirit of national purpose and common good that helped Americans get thru it. No one can deny that Reconstruction gave hope to millions of freed slaves (albeit brief hope). No one can deny that the New Deal gave hope to millions of Americans of all races and creeds.
Bloom Bloom
@Thomas X "hope"on the Titanic of misplaced dependence.
3 More Replies...
Giorgio Rizzo
Extremely beautiful! Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about it.
Howard Miller
Kudos to the Minnesota musicians who performed this marvelous rendition - bravo/a~
Michael Weathers
One of my favorites--exquisitely done!
Sapa Clothing
The best orchestration piece ever.
nancywarren
I wonder if orchestral music in America will ever be this good again.
James Thiele
Oh yes, πΆ will never die it will survive. It's foundation is silence.
D H
This song played in my head many times years ago when I was thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Kevin Farkas
AT 88.
Zuzanna Wisniewska
Aaron Copeland ,composer, publicist, pianist, conductor and teacher.The style of Aaron Copeland's music is sometimes considered to be the most expressive of the American spirit, sometimes described as" populist"
scott rickman
Iβm thinking this would be a good tune to play in my earbuds while raking leaves.π
Rosie C
I have synesthesia and this is one of my favorite pieces of music to βseeβ ππ
Piper McPickles
Oh my gosh, me too!! π
Tyler Nielsen
This is my most favorite YouTube comment of all time. π that just sounds so beautiful!
JVA
Describe what it looks like please
Rosie C
@JVA I couldnβt possibly, itβs always moving & changing with the music, but lots of gold, greens yellows and very light colors that move in time. Itβs hard to explain, always has been lol
Rosie C
@Tyler Nielsen :) π€ I wish I could share what it looks like with you!
Rebekah
I know itβs supposed to be about the Appalachian mountains, but it makes me think of all sorts of scenery from the western United States, especially during the 1800βs. From cowboys herding 1000βs of cattle, to the many Chinese immigrants who worked on laying down railroad tracks, to vistas of canyons, deserts and the Rockiesβ¦ I listen to this suite many evenings, winding down for bed. To me, itβs an iconic classic. Pure perfection, and very patriotic. Weβre so very blessed to live in this nation of freedom and natural wonders. I thank God every night as I pray with my precious sons.
Hector Morena
It seems that the makers of this video had your same feeling because for some of the pictures 4:40 or 13:59 they have chosen landscapes from the western US.
Catherine Chilton
Listen to Copeland's Rodeo!
David Friese
Beautiful!
Peter Schwaninger
Pretty photos of mountain scenes. I can't believe that all of them are of the Appalachians. The Minnesota Orchestra delivers here a very fine recording.
bruce pridgen
That photo early on (about the 4 minute mark) is almost certainly in the Rockies.
robert shaw
They are all part of the Appalachians, different sections with different names but they run from New Hampshire until they finally are reduced to little more than hills in Georgia. Each geographic section has a particular from and beauty. People moved there off the coastal flatlands to get away from the growing pressures of population and to mine the coal. Like Cotton in the South, they became slaves to a single source of prosperity and continue to do so today. The beautiful of these mountains belies a dirty secret of poverty and being a part of a situation that may never be resolved. I believe this is less about the mountains than the people who live cradled in the valleys between the tired ancient once proud mountains formed by folded layers of hard granite crust distorted by the inexorable pressure from the thrust of the Atlantic plate. What happened millions of years ago, now worn, and smoothed into softly rounded remnants of peaks is only a small example of what the East Coast must have looked like. This one one of the very few pieces of "Modern" compositions that is tolerable to listen to.
Glenn Mangold
Of course I could be wrong, but based on hiking and camping all along the Appalachian range from Georgia to Maine, 3:38 and 14:17 are not Appalachian mountains. Again, based on hiking trips, 3:38 looks like either the Rockies or the Sierras, and 14:17 looks very much like the Rockies in Glacier Park, Montana. The rest of the photos look like the Appalachians.
ThereIsOnlyChange
@robert shaw All of these photos are most certainly NOT the Appalachians. And perhaps you should double-check your history and geology before writing about it with such authority. "Appalachian Spring" as a piece of music most certainly represents NATURE. Spend one week outside in these mountains in the spring, and you will actually understand it.
Liza Field
@robert shaw no, they aren't all of the Appalachian chain, which is as you say way way older than steep jagged bare rock. We do have many bald bluffs & old stripmines, & current Administration handing out lootpile of logging permits to fellow looters & robber barons, but God help us grow up, & may our ancient mtns endure.
2 More Replies...
Dylonely
Simply gorgeous.
Carolyn moore
Bravo nice job Aaron Copland.
myekal147
At 19 minutes I hear my current practice piece - Simple Gifts - for violin...NICE!
Jay McGann
I am from a city where the Appalachian Highlands run out into the Lake Ontario plain. I loved spring in the rolling green hills of Central NY and the Finger Lakes more than anything. The first time I heard Appalachian Spring my only thought was, Copland has it, perfectly.
Lucas Mallmann
Wow, amazing !!!!
harry hope
i so love this.
Sunspot Dawn
Beautiful. Happy Spring 2020!
Ellen Camano
Happy end of Summer; Happy Autumn....... :o)
Ws Johnston
The music of Heaven....
allen webber
Poets: Do you hear the insistence of the anapest in this ballet music? Short-short-long. It's the rhythmic backbone of this composition.
little froe
Itβs gorgeous
George Paciullo
I love power and Beauty. Magnificent.
Dannie Daniels
The beginning always reminds me of Jupiter from Gustav Holtz's The Planets suite. πΆ π΅
BlueSky
Letβs not forget the real defenders of the beautiful lands. The Indigenous people of Turtle Island.
Donna Hibler
The music is classic Americana.
Bloom Bloom
I like to let the music just sing to me.
Mary Elgin
The perfect Thanksgiving Day peace.
Catherine Chilton
The perfect Easter piece!
Modern Aries *
This should be used in Fantasia Borealis
Andrei Yakushau
Great All ! :)
Paul Reaney
Oh AMERICA!! I never tire of this beautiful music/scenery I donβt want to spoil it all: but why oh why do you have your current government/President!!??
Sierra Sky
πππ»
Sir_Foxie_The_Valiant
Dance now whever you may be!
Mark Herron
Happy Birthday to the Late Aaron Copland and Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas βπ Go HUG someone today IF they're been vaccinated or not π« Blessings and Hugs ππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππ!
Joey Wilkes
Nice music π chilling with my that loves this music.,...
Joey Wilkes
Lady
paper doodles
what were you trying to say?
Grip Van Wrinkled
Elmer's key influence..
Joe Julio Garcia De Bidegain
beim Anhoeres dieses schoene Musikstueck erinnere ich mich an alte Westernfilme, die in den 60 Jahren im Fernseher gelaufen sind...., wie zum Beispiel, Bonanza, um nur einen zu nennen.
S2β’_β’S2
2:43 β€
paper doodles
who else watched this when they were in Chorus class
yee haw
i've gotta listen to this for an online assignment rn :((
Jon Dishmon Music and STUFF!!
Corral and shakerdan sounds just like this
Nathan Ankrom
15:20 Xylophone Excerpt
Donovan Chase
2:43 18:20 20:53
WVislandia
23:38 Photo is of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
Nikki Schlep
Thanks for verifying the landscape! βThe passage of the Patowmac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature,β Thomas Jefferson wrote of the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in 1783. βThis scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic."
Phyllis Hamilton
Please correct your spelling of the Orchestra to Minnesota! One of our finest states in the history of our country and the agricultural history and achievements of its people!
Pursuit of Truth
Not hearing a lot of good things coming out of Minnesota these days. So sad....
Fasiya Memon Benzel
as a respiratorist thrapyist at memorial the withchy of all witch. vision vision quest is my saroor. thank you and thats all world
Ron
13:40 chills up my spine, everytime. Also, I need a better amp.
Aidan Walsh
People who are here for Music Foundations at SAU ππΌ
Iβm Spartacus
My brain has just put the trash out
Rory McIlmoil
The pictures of the jagged peaks aren't from Appalachia.
Catherine Chilton
True -- but they are very beautiful!
Arthur J Lamberti
Happy 120th birthday
Jeff Edmondson
its funny<how tiimeless,even an american writer,, can be appreciaated, aand misscostrude, in his legacey! this piece was written as a love song! to his love as a ballet! and then later, renamed!! copeland was speaking of the natural order of things; to her! They spent time; the sneak away; to the northern appalachians. a cabin, and he was trying totell her, honor her, and explain the obvious! Natural Order. And thispiece became americana! But ai think it would do us well to rember ya know!
David Sandoval
Don't forget joahhn SABASHITIN bach
Dylonely
20:52
Noble Lan
Native Americans.
Fasiya Memon Benzel
may be one but all dentisttistas
popokiobake
Oh Gawd - the inane commercials that assault the sensibilities, and insult our intelligence. This is why we "hate on" every brand advertised on YouTube. Is it so hard to sell intelligently without offending?
SHK 13
Yankeeees
Shirley J Haney
Itβs probably wrong but Iβve always hated this piece. Someone showed me Tis A Gift the Shaker Hymn early and all I think listening to this is well itβs no Tis A Gift.
The Magician
As an American I may be biased. I love my country. and perhaps that is why I consider this the most beautiful symphony ever written. It fully captures the most beautiful aspects of my homeland.
Charles Fleming
Iβm English and I agree.
MEV
This is without a doubt not the most beautiful symphony ever written but it is a great work of art from a jewish american composer
Charles West
Copland was a genius.
Sky Notaname
You are biased, no maybe about it, but it is a beautiful symphony and it's absolutely iconic though it reflects an era of usa that I think is decaying.
Dean Moore
Aaron Copeland captured in music all of the hope and promise of what our country could be. Perhaps someday we can actually live up to the vision he captured in "Simple Gifts."
S Salerno
Yes!
Matthew Brazille
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite is beautiful beyond words. It always gives me visions of our country's beautiful Landscapes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. May God continue to bless our great and beautiful country.
Sophie Robbins
Amen to that. America matters. xx
Zuzanna Wisniewska
My favorite piece from Aaron Copeland.So soothing and beautiful to me.