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Let me tell you about Aaron Copland. I was thinking about Aaron Copland this evening and I was inspired.

Aaron Copland is a composer. He is considered by many the first "great" American composer. His parents were Jewish Russian immigrants. He was born in Brooklyn.

Aaron Copland wrote pieces of music that a.) are great and b.) have really cool titles. For example, he wrote a ballet called "Billy the Kid" (1938). Who writes ballets about Billy the Kid? Only awesome people like Russian-American Jews named Aaron Copland. He also wrote something called "Rodeo" (1942). Not "Ro-day-o" like about shopping or something, but "RO-DEE-O" which is a lot more awesome and has to do with chewing tobacco and broken bones. And my personal favorite title of his is especially epic and earth-shattering: "THE FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN" (1942). I wish I was smart enough to call something "THE FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN". But alas, I am not.