Editing Fanfare for the Common Man (section)

==Fanfare==
[[File:Henry-A.-Wallace-Townsend.jpeg|thumb|150px| [[Henry A. Wallace]]'s speech proclaiming the "Century of the Common Man" inspired Copland's fanfare.]]
Copland, in his autobiography, wrote of the request: "[[Eugene Aynsley Goossens|Eugene Goossens]], conductor of the [[Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra]], had written to me at the end of August about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942–43 concert season. During [[World War I]] he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert. It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in [[World War II]] with American composers". A total of 10 fanfares<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/orchestra/history/goossens-fanfares/ |title=Goossens Fanfares |publisher=Cincinnatisymphony.org |access-date=2016-03-12}}</ref> were written at Goossens' behest, but Copland's is the only one which remains in the standard repertoire.
[[File:Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Initial trumpet notes from ''Fanfare for the Common Man'', Copland Memorial Garden, [[Tanglewood]]]]
It was written in response to the US entry into [[World War II]] and was inspired in part by a famous 1942 speech<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winrock.org/wallace/wallacecenter/wallace/CCM.htm |title=The Century of the Common Man |publisher=Winrock International |first=Henry |last=Wallace |author-link=Henry A. Wallace |date=February 1942 |access-date=2011-06-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124714/http://www.winrock.org/wallace/wallacecenter/wallace/CCM.htm |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref>
where vice president [[Henry A. Wallace]] proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".<ref>{{Cite book
 | author = Byron Almnn and Edward Pearsall
 | title = Approaches to meaning in music
 | year = 2006
 | page = 88
 | isbn = 978-0-253-34792-3
 | publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] }}</ref>

Goossens had suggested titles such as ''Fanfare for Soldiers'', or sailors or airmen, and he wrote that {{nowrap|"[i]t}} is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort...." Copland considered several titles including ''Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony'' and ''Fanfare for [[Four Freedoms]]''; to Goossens' surprise, however, Copland titled the piece ''Fanfare for the Common Man''. Goossens wrote, "Its title is as original as its music, and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance. If it is agreeable to you, we will premiere it 12 March 1943 at [[Tax Day|income tax]] time". Copland's reply was "I [am] all for honoring the common man at income tax time".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.surreybrass.co.uk/things/fanfare_for_the_common_man.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317004223/http://www.surreybrass.co.uk/things/fanfare_for_the_common_man.htm |archive-date=March 17, 2009  |title=Repertoire: Fanfare for the Common Man |website=surreybrass.co.uk }}</ref>

Copland later used the fanfare as the main [[theme (music)|theme]] of the fourth [[movement (music)|movement]] of his [[Symphony No. 3 (Copland)|Third Symphony]] (composed between 1944 and 1946).