where Elder Joseph Brackett composed "Simple Gifts." She wrote the first article which identified him as the composer of this Shaker song. --Aaron Copland (1900-1990), the composer who first arranged the "Simple Gifts" tune in his award-winning ballet score, Appalachian Spring (1944), and ...
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Simple Giftsbegins with Louis Moreau Gottschalk's blatantly patriotic and more than a little amusingThe Union, Concert Paraphrase on National Airsfor Piano. Written in 1862, during the Civil War, this rallying cry for all things patriotic (well, at least for the Union side) predates John Philip...
the Shakers (and American composerAaron Copeland) used “Simple Gifts” about the gift to be simple. In the 1970s, Dion beautifully sang about finding a “Sanctuary” in difficult times. More recently, Passenger warned us we needed to get away from our computers to “Scare Away the Dark.”...