Comments on: Avoiding poem controversy go for Simple Gifts http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/01/20/avoiding-poem-controversy-go-for-simple-gifts/ Looking at a little down home literature Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:57:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Chris http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/01/20/avoiding-poem-controversy-go-for-simple-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Chris Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:35:03 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/01/20/avoiding-poem-controversy-go-for-simple-gifts/#comment-159 I loved the music too, and I had just heard the Aaron Copland version of “Simple Gifts” playing in the background over and over at the very cool American Arts & Crafts exhibit at the Western Heritage Museum. What a perfect theme song.

Apparently some in the world of classical music were less impressed:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/20/AR2009012003560.html

http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/01/tt_art_for_politics_sake.html

Alex Ross dug it, though:

http://www.therestisnoise.com/2009/01/inaugural-music.html

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