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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.
This is a list of compositions by Aaron Copland (1900–1990) in chronological order of composition: ... Billy the Kid; ballet (1938) An Outdoor Overture for ...
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 ]
According to one of Joel's unofficial biographers, Hank Bordowitz, the instrumentation of "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" has details reminiscent of the composers Aaron Copland and Ennio Morricone. [7] Copland himself wrote the music for a ballet titled Billy The Kid.
Ballets by Aaron Copland. Pages in category "Ballets by Aaron Copland" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Billy the Kid (ballet) D.
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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]
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.