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Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet written by the American composer Aaron Copland on commission from Lincoln Kirstein. It was choreographed by Eugene Loring for Ballet Caravan . Along with Rodeo and Appalachian Spring , it is one of Copland's most popular and widely performed pieces.
Pages in category "Ballets by Aaron Copland" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Billy the Kid (ballet) D. Dance Panels; R. Rodeo (ballet ...
Grohg; ballet (1925, revised 1932) Music for the Theatre for orchestra (1925) Two Choruses ("The House on the Hill," "An Immortality") for chorus (1925) Piano Concerto for piano and orchestra (1926) Two Pieces for violin and piano (1926) Sentimental Melody for piano (1926) Four Piano Blues for piano (1926–48) Poet's Song for voice and piano ...
Apr. 15—Travel to 1865 New Mexico and see Billy the Kid and crew. The last time Festival Ballet Albuquerque staged "Billy the Kid and Other Tall Tales" was in 2012 and the Albuquerque-based ...
Like Rodeo, Billy the Kid has a score by Aaron Copland and draws on the mythology of the American West. However unlike de Mille's ballet, Billy the Kid offers a bleak vision of the frontier, with a protagonist more fittingly characterized, according to one recent critic, as a "murderous psychopath". [citation needed]
El Salón prepared Copland to write the ballet score Billy the Kid, which became, in Pollack's words, an "archetypical depiction of the legendary American West". [147] Based on a Walter Noble Burns novel, with choreography by Eugene Loring, Billy was among the first to display an American music and dance vocabulary. [148]
The choreographer was given considerable creative control, choosing Aaron Copland as the composer after being impressed by his previous ballet, Billy the Kid. Though Copland was initially reluctant to compose "another Cowboy ballet," De Mille persuaded him that this show would mark a significant departure from his previous work.
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