Fanfare for the Common Man

On my favorite radio station, which is also carried online (http://www.kdfc.com/), they are playing Aaron Copeland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.

I love this piece. It’s stirring. It’s uplifting. Only an American Composer would bother to write a triumphant piece for the rest of us! This is what should play at American graduations (except that it is rather short) instead of Pomp & Circumstance. After all, this is what we are about—the Common Man!

(picture courtesy of Wikipedia)