Wonderful Music

Timothy is participating in the University Interscholastic League’s Music Memory contest.

One of the pieces he’ll be listening to is the fifth selection from Aaron Copland’s ballet Rodeo: “Hoe-Down.” Here is “Hoe-Down” for your listening enjoyment.

Now, for some reason, I went out and looked up the piece in Wikipedia. It mentioned that the major theme of the selection is a well-known folk tune called “Bonaparte’s Retreat”. I hadn’t heard of that piece and sought it out.

There are words, but the music is, in my opinion, just haunting. If you’d like to be as haunted by this beautiful piece as I am, here ya go:

All I can say is “WOW”.