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Composer: Copland, Aaron

American Populist

Pasternack, Benjamin

Gil-Ordonez, Angel

Horowitz, Joseph

Horwitz, Murray

Candelaria, Lorenzo

Gero, Edward

Kazin, Michael

Levy, Beth E.

McCartin, Joseph

Conductor: Gil-Ordonez, Angel

Post-Classical Ensemble

Television Producer: Horowitz, Joseph

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Actor: Candelaria, Lorenzo

Actor: Gero, Edward

Actor: Horwitz, Murray

Narrator: Gil-Ordonez, Angel

Narrator: Horowitz, Joseph

Narrator: Kazin, Michael

Narrator: Levy, Beth E.

Narrator: McCartin, Joseph

Piano: Pasternack, Benjamin

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Playing Time: 01:16:16

Catalogue Number: NRE057

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It's all eerily pertinent today, this saga of an iconic American composer jostled by Populist currents on the far left, then the far right - and finally retreating from the fray. The film includes the participation of a couple of distinguished American historians: Michael Kazin (on Populism) and Joseph McCartin (on the Red Scare). It also incorporates extensive excerpts from PCE's Naxos DVD of The City (1939) - Copland's highest achievement as a film composer, and the least known consequential music that he composed.