'Rodeo', 'Billy the Kid' and 'Fanfare for the Common Man' are all works by which composer?
Fanfare for the Common Man Fanfare for the Common Man Fanfare for the Common Man is a musical work by the American composer Aaron Copland. It was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens and was inspired in part by a speech made earlier that year by United States Vice President Henry A. Wallace, in which Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man". Several alternative versions have been made and fragments of the work have appeared in many subsequent US and British cultural productions, such as in the musical scores of movies. A fanfare is a
Fanfare for the Common Man all for honoring the common man at income tax time". Copland later used the fanfare as the main theme of the fourth movement of his Third Symphony (composed between 1944 - 1946). The fanfare has found much use as a theme for television programs. In the United States, it was used on the television program "You Are There" in its later years during the show's closing credits. Emerson, Lake and Palmer's arrangement of "Fanfare for the Common Man" was the opening theme song for the "CBS Sports Spectacular" and in Mexico, it was the main title theme of TV Azteca