To many people, the term "American classical music" means a handful of famous names: Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, Sousa. But this doesn't begin to scrape the surface of a musical heritage reaching back to colonial times. America's legacy on concert music contains extraordinary riches, much of it unfamiliar even to sophisticated music lovers. This entertaining, fact-filled book celebrates that legacy by investigating the greatest composers familiar & unfamiliar. 2 CDs covering 150 years of music