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Originally Posted by Manabi

Aaron Copland is who I thought of. I discovered that Wikipedia has a list of American classical composers. I find it interesting that Pachelbel's son moved to the American colonies, so he's on the list. Not many of his works survived, apparently.

I think I had heard of Fry before, but was not familiar with his works.

Originally Posted by Red Falcon

George Gershwin
Charles Ives
Aaron Copland
Leonard Bernstein
John Adams
Philip Glass

These are the ones off the top of my head that I can think of. The first 4 are more in the Traditional Classical Music vein. The other two are of the Modern School that is trying to break down the traditional Classical Musical idiom and create something new. To my ears most Modern Classical Music sounds like chalk on a blackboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono...ical_composers

http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/2...-Composers.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvScDWCA4GY

D'oh! I don't know why I didn't think of George Gershwin with his Porgy and Bess and all those works. And I actually read a book about him when I was a child! I think that he had a brother who was a composer, too, but not of the caliber, or at least popularity of his brother. I cannot even recall his name at the moment.

I don't know exactly what the demarcations are for "classical music," but if you throw in composers known for motion picture scores, the list becomes quite long. Rodgers and Hammerstein is the first one to come to mind. I think that some of the ones that you listed might be, too?

Hopefully, we will get offers of freebies from some good American composers before long. Wouldn't it would be great to get a whole album, like Naxos offers a couple of times a month!