Here's a suite Aaron Copland put together in 1942, of some of his favorite film scores. He called it Music for Movies. This is the EOS Orchestra, in concert at the Ethical Culture Society in New York.

Huge, sweeping and majestic, the Midwestern prairies boast of America's wealth, bounty and infinite possibilities. They inspired Aaron Copland when he wrote "Rodeo" and the music for the movie "The ...