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James Zehm chastizes me:
>>Copland himself pronounced it "RO-dee-o." I heard it from his very own
>>lips, more than once.
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>... Is Mister Copland pronouncing what he likes to call his own
>work or does he take attention to how the WORD Rodeo is pronounced?
How he pronounced the title of his ballet.
>When someone writes RO-dee-o, he probably refers to the pronouncation
>RO-dii-o, and this could only only only be English/American. But it is a
>Hispanic word and therefore my vote goes for Ro-DEE-o, long E, with NOT an
>"i-sound" E, but with E as in Eric.
Copland wasn't Hispanic. He was a Russian-Jewish composer from Brooklyn,
New York. As I said, unless he was having us on, he pronounced it (for
German and Italian speakers) "RO-di-o."
Steve Schwartz
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