QUESTION: Copland and Haydn for primary

[Kelly Farrow]

Hello!! Our music teacher put the query below to me today. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions!!

-Kelly Farrow

I'm working on a unit with the composers Franz Joseph Haydn and Aaron Copland and really was hoping to find something interactive and/or video oriented on the composers.  I've found videos on youtube of performances of their works and that works for the listening component but was really hoping for more biographical/story info that is geared for the 2nd grade level and I keep coming up short.  (there are websites like classicsforkids but I need more)  Would you be able to suggest anything else? 

[Ryan Goble]

Copeland is heavily used in a lot of films but I'm not finding any easy webpage - he's all over the place in Spike Lee's "He Got Game" - see the soundtrack tab here. There is also a documentary from PBS "Keeping Score: Copland and the American Sound" streamed HERE and at Amazon.