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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 Rio Grande Band is the touring band for American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey. Gary Roller is the longest-standing member of the band, having joined Murphey in his live performances in 1985. David Coe joined the band in 1990, and in the late 1990s, Ryan Murphey began recording with his father and touring with the band. In recent ...
Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 1905 – 21 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author.He was the founder and 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.
"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 ...
1940 Me Feelins is Hurt - a western-themed Popeye cartoon, as background music; 1943 King of the Cowboys [7] - sung by Roy Rogers. 1947 The Mild West, a Paramount Noveltoon, in a bouncing ball sequence; 1954 I Love Lucy - sung by Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in the season 3 episode "Home Movies". 1987 Innerspace - Robert Picardo performs a ...
He is a Tejano and Texas country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin ...
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.