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He Got Game Discography of CDs
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| | He Got Game - The Music Of Aaron Copland CD (1998) Original Soundtrack
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Just take a look at the track titles on the soundtrack: "The Open Prairie," "Appalachian Spring," "John Henry," "Lincoln Portrait," "Hoe-Down." Yes, Copland was a film composer, but for movies about rural or small-town white folks, like Of Mice and Men and Our Town. In fact, Newman was clearly influenced by Copland, as plenty of other film composers for sports films have been as well. James Horner lifted chunks of Copland's "Grover's Corners" for his classic Field of Dreams score. "Fanfare for the Common Man" has become as much of a sportscast cliché as "I Believe I Can Fly" and Randy Newman's music for The Natural. Those adjectives describe baseball. Copland's music has always been associated with the American heartland. Of course, Lee is not the first person to connect Copland's music with sports. But one can't help feeling that the music seems a little out of place. By contrast, basketball is fast, confrontational, freewheeling. He Got Game is a movie about African-American basketball players growing up in the Coney Island projects. Lee wanted to make the point that basketball is as quintessentially American as cowboys, Lincoln, and Copland himself. Yes, basketball is played all over America, and, yes, it is a distinctly American game. But it's connected to an entirely different stream of Americana. When Spike Lee decided to score his basketball drama He Got Game with the music of Aaron Copland, it was an unusually bold move, even for an unusually bold director. The opening sequence of the movie shows Americans shooting hoops across the country -- in the 'hood, in the 'burbs, in the Kansas cornfields. Copland is slow, grand, patient. Lee's gamble pays off in that it gives He Got Game a sense of universality, underlining the essential humanity of its characters and their experience.
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He Got Game CD discography Alternate spellings: CD discography of songs by band, discographie, dicography, discology, disography, discografie, discogrophy, diskography.
 He Got Game Songs
Popular or famous He Got Game music songs: Appalachian Spring: Excerpt, Appalachian Spring: Simple Gifts, Billy the Kid: The open prairie. More music songs Billy the Kid: The Open Prairie again, Dance Panels: Pas de trois, Fanfare for the common man, John Henry, Letter from Home, Lincoln Portrait. More music songs Music for the Theatre: Interlude, Our Town: Grover's Corner, Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes.
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