Aaron Copland
's parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants to America who had settled in Brooklyn. Copland was born there on , and later said of his childhood home: “Music was the last thing anyone would have connected with it.
” Nevertheless, when he was 13 years old, Copland went to a concert performance given by the virtuoso Polish pianist
Ignacy Paderewski
(1860–1941), after which he realised that music was the only thing that really mattered to him...