I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Specia lEnglish. Today we tell about Aaron Copland , one of America 's best modern music composers. Aaron Copland wrote many kinds of music. He wrote music for the orchestra, piano, and voice. He wrote music for plays, movies and dance. Copland also was a conductor, pianist, speaker, teacher and author. Music critics say Copland taught Americans about the mselves through his music. He used parts of manylod traditional American folk songs in his work. He was influenced to do this after studying music in France. He said that composers there had a very French way of writing music. He said Americans had nothing like that in this country. So he de cided to compose music that was truly American.