Download Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra “I`ve Got Rhythm” American

Chattanooga
Symphony Orchestra
“I’ve Got Rhythm”
American Masters
Concert
John Phillip Sousa
• Band Master
• Music represented as completely
American
• Stars and Stripes Forever, is our
National March
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHx6G1B
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George Gershwin
• One of the best American
composers, who combined jazz
and formal music
• He wrote symphony music, opera,
jazz and movie music
• He died of a brain tumor at 38
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
3sMW6n-8Hpw
• http://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=-cocB-DHzTU
Aaron Copeland
• Parents born in Russia
and moved to USA
• Wrote different styles of
music.
• Is the originator of the
American Style of music
• Lived until 101, died in
1990
• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=1JCnLNWhBTA
Scott Joplin
• First prominent African
American Composer
• King of Ragtime
• First person in his family
to attend college
• Was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for his contribution
to American Music
• http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=fPmruHc4S9Q
W.C. Handy
• Known as the “Father of
the Blues”
• His parents and
grandparents were
slaves
• http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=9nwHdvxEDa
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