Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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"When I listen to Copland's music, I hear America, and basketball is America. It's like he wrote the score for this film. ENJOY."
Spike Lee "(Spike Lee's) soundtrack bristles with... the orchestral thunder of Aaron Copland, the late composer whose passionate film scores... are in line with the mythic conflict between this father and son."
"Spike shoots, Copland scores."
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" Aaron Copland and Public Enemy are a surprisingly harmonious fast-break combination." --USA Today
Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee unites two uniquely American phenomena in this dramatic feature film starring Denzel Washington: basketball and the music of Aaron Copland. Let He Got Game take you into the life of a gifted high school basketball player, Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen), a teenager caught between his dreams and those of the people around him. And let Spike Lee introduce you to (or help you rediscover) the music of American composer Aaron Copland, from the first stunning moments of the film through to the end credits.
Hear classic favorites like "Appalachian Spring", "Lincoln Portrait", and "Fanfare for the Common Man", performed by renowned orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic -- and used to powerful effect. Spike Lee shows us a montage of basketball in America: black and white, rural and urban, an America of the streets and back yards. And the music ties it all together in the ultimate celebration of Copland's music.
CD package features notes by Spike Lee.
"With diversity and then some, the soundtrack intersperses the orchestral music of Aaron Copland with the rap of Public Enemy. Even the music defines the film's big, buoyant notion of post-Barnum Americana. It's a sound as all-embracing as the sport Mr. Lee loves." --New York Times
