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The Rio Grande is a secular cantata by English composer Constant Lambert. Written in 1927, it is a setting of the poem by Sacheverell Sitwell . The piece achieved instant and long-lasting popularity on its appearance on the concert stage in 1929.
"Rio Grande" presents a series of episodic music segments meant to illustrate a trip across an American frontier. [6] According to Paley, "Brian was really into writing this as a survival thing, the idea of a little man against the big men and making it on your own … the misunderstandings that must have happened between travelers on the same trail and how scary that must have been."
"The Mighty Rio Grande" was used prominently throughout the 2011 film Moneyball; in a tribute video by American web-based production company Rooster Teeth to the late Monty Oum, creator of the popular web series RWBY in February 2015; in the 2014 science-fiction film Earth to Echo; in the 2014 film Lone Survivor; in the 2015 film Room; in the ...
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Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 1905 – 21 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author.He was the founding music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Dame Ninette de Valois and Sir Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in the establishment of the English ballet as a significant artistic movement.
Rio Grande Mud is the second studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top. It was released in 1972 by the London Records label. The album title was inspired by the Rio Grande , the river that forms the border between Mexico and Texas .
"I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)" is a comic song written by Johnny Mercer for the Paramount Pictures release Rhythm on the Range and sung by its star, Bing Crosby. The Crosby commercial recording was made on July 17, 1936, with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra for Decca Records . [ 1 ]
Rio Grand was an American Texas Country group founded by Lance Leslie (harmonica, vocals), Tommy Rennick (vocals, bass guitar), Danny Rivera (lead vocals, guitar, banjo, lap steel guitar, Dobro, and Fred Stallcup (lead guitar, vocals). [1] All four members were natives of the state of Texas.