1.   American classical music is enjoying a renaissance.

2.   Aaron Copland was an energetic promoter of American music.

3.   Commemorative stamps for the stars of American popular music.

4.   Moreover, Americans were brought in to plan American music nights.

5.   American classical music has been more a matter of accommodation than of collision.

6.   American music arrived as a world power.

7.   American music may be another story.

8.   American popular music depends on entrepreneurs as well as musicians, and William Christopher Handy was a savvy combination of both.

9.   American music was always most typically outgoing, embracing.

10.   American conductor Dennis Russell Davies, long a champion of American music from his bases in Europe, conducted a grand, sweeping performance.