American Empire Release:American Empire Lost songs recorded 40 years

Lost songs recorded 40 years ago and unheard until now

And rightly so: the Austrian composer is one of the true Romantics of music history

Filmmaker Michael Patrick Kelly first met Paul Motian while shooting a short documentary about his neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper West Side called Duke Ellington Boulevard

So skillful is Copland's orchestral transcription that one might easily be lulled into thinking this had been conceived solely for orchestra

American Empire Release:American Empire Lost songs recorded 40 yearsThree Civil War veterans strive to build a cattle empire in the American West, fighting rustlers, bad weather and more. The ultimate challenge comes when one of the three men becomes greedy and tries to take over.