Whether they listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland invites readers to ask two basic questions: are they hearing everything that is going on? Are they really being sensitive to it. With his provocative suggestions, Aaron Copland guides readers through a deeper appreciation of the most rewarding of art forms.

Now in trade paperback: ?The definitive guide to musical enjoyment? ("Forum").
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.

Drama starring Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum, based on a screenplay adapted by John Steinbeck from his early novel of the same name. Ten-year-old Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles) lives on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley with his mother (Loy), recently-returned father (Sheppard Strudwick), maternal grandfather (Louis Calhern) and handsome hired hand Billy Buck (Mitchum). In an attempt to get closer to his son after his long absence from the ranch, Tom's father gives him a much longed-for pony. But as the pony becomes the central focus of Tom's life, the family is driven apart as Tom turns to Billy for help with rearing it.

Whose fault is it that the artist counts for so little in the public mind? Has it always been thus? Is there something wrong, perhaps, with the nature of the art work being created in America? Is our system of education lacking in its attitude toward the art product? Should our state and federal governments take a more positive stand toward the cultural development of their citizens? These are some of the provocative questions which Aaron Copland raises and answers in Copland on Music.

Period-piece documentary originally made for the 1939 New York World's Fair ('The World of Tomorrow'), with a newly-recorded music score by Aaron Copland. The film, scripted by city planner Lewis Mumford, advocates the benefits of garden city planning and presents suburbia as an idyllic alternative to gritty urban life.