Aaron Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man

Go to bed early, wake up before the sun, make some VERY strong coffee, and watch the sun come up listening to this...makes you feel like the very first human to ever walk the earth.

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today." - Aaron Copland

This was played as my dad's coffin was carried into the room. We were never close (his choice/behaviour) but this always makes me cry listening to it. RIP Dad.

Fun fact this song was composed on a special occasion to contribute to the war effort. It was originally going to be called "fanfare for the soldier" or "fanfare for the sailor" but after being inspired by the vice president speech in which he said something along the lines of "the century of the common man", the composer named it "fanfare for the common man" and then there was light. Truly an inspiring song for all of the men and women who fight/fought for the free people of the world.

I used to play this before I ran in marathons. It always motivated me like an Olympic athlete. :D 🇨🇦

Fanfare for the Common Man: shows pictures of space and whales

Man, Copland just made an entire career out of writing America's soundtrack

Heard our city's symphony orchestra perform it yesterday. If you ever get a chance, go to hear it live. It's like nothing you can imagine. You can't listen and not get chills.

I'm such a fan of Emerson Lake & Palmer's amazing version of this song, I had to come and hear Aaron Copland's original. It is just as breathtaking as I imagined! ELP definitely did so much justice to the original - they maintained every single note and every single chord, all the while adding their own distinctiveness to it.

Aaron Copland was a very special person. This piece always makes me emotional.

Copland, in his autobiography, wrote of the request: "Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had written to me at the end of August about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942–43 concert season. During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert. It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers". A total of 10 fanfares[1] were written at Goossens' behest, but Copland's is the only one which remains in the standard repertoire. Initial trumpet notes from Fanfare for the Common Man, Copland Memorial Garden, Tanglewood It was written in response to the US entry into World War II and was inspired in part by a famous 1942 speech[2] where vice president Henry A. Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".[3] Goossens had suggested titles such as Fanfare for Soldiers, or sailors or airmen, and he wrote that "[i]t is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort...." Copland considered several titles including Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony and Fanfare for Four Freedoms; to Goossens' surprise, however, Copland titled the piece Fanfare for the Common Man. Goossens wrote, "Its title is as original as its music, and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance. If it is agreeable to you, we will premiere it 12 March 1943 at income tax time". Copland's reply was "I [am] all for honoring the common man at income tax time".[4] Copland later used the fanfare as the main theme of the fourth movement of his Third Symphony (composed between 1944 and 1946).

I find it so funny. This was used at the start of the VHS distribution service "Gativideo" in Argentina. All Argentinians know it as "the Gativideo intro" 😁

This song sends chills down my spine. Beautiful, surreal, wonderful! All the multitude of "common men" that have struggled and strove throughout history for what they believed in; they hath bequethed us all that we now take for granted.

One of the greatest fanfares ever written and there are many great fanfares that have been written.

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL SONGS I HAVE EVER HEARD......I LOVE IT AND GET CHILLS WHEN I HEAR IT PLAYED....AWESOME.......!

The majesty of this piece.  Every time I hear it, I imagine the world and ever last thing in and on it, standing still, as this plays.  Even Mother Nature holds Her breath.

judging by the graphics, this should be called Fanfare for the Common Spaceman

If anyone clicked on this video for inspiration and a sense of wonder in times like these you are not alone. Let the Fanfare for the Common Man give you hope that humanity with the grace of God can overcome anything.

There's something so incredibly comforting about this piece. It's sparse and golden and makes me feel okay when things are terrible.

Truly an American masterpiece, but yet meant for every nation and man.