Aaron Copland: To Stop The Flow Of Music

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Aaron Copland once said, “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable”. Aaron Copland had the right idea about music it will never stop until time stops. All music has history, a purpose, and a fan. Everyone has their own music that they love to listen to because everyone is different and many songs embrace differences people find in themselves and in society. The five radio stations I have set on my car radio begin with a Christian rock station, then a punk rock station, then the next two play today's hits, then the fifth station plays mostly hip hop and rap. On my Pandora radio, I have almost 100 radio stations and they are all different. I have classical music stations, rap,

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