Copland - Billy the Kid Suite [Score]

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Erich Kunzel, Conductor
Performed by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
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. It is most famous for its incorporation of several cowboy tunes and American folk songs and, although built around the figure and the exploits of Billy the Kid, is not so much a biography of a notorious but peculiarly appealing desperado as it is a perception of the "Wild West", in which a figure such as Billy played a vivid role.
It premiered on 16 October 1938 in Chicago by the Ballet Caravan Company, with pianists Arthur Gold and Walter Hendl performing a two-piano version of the score. The first performance in New York City occurred on 24 May 1939, with an orchestra conducted by Fritz Kitzinger.
0:00 - Introduction: The Open Prairie
3:27 - Street in a Frontier Town.
6:43 - Mexican Dance
9:54 - Prairie Night (Card game at night)
12:55 - Gun battle
14:48 - Celebration (After Billy's capture)
17:05 - Billy's Death
18:29 - The Open Prairie again

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@Maddenhawk 5 месяцев назад

0:00 - The action begins and closes on the open prairie. It depicts the loneliness of the landscape and the trekking of the pioneers. 3:27 - Billy is seen for the first time as a boy of twelve with his mother. 8:42 - A brawl turns ugly, guns are drawn, and in some unaccountable way Billy's mother is killed. (She actually dies from tuberculosis) 9:13 Without an instant's hesitation, in cold fury, Billy draws a knife from a cowhand's sheath and stabs his mother's slayers. His short but famous career has begun. 9:54 - In swift succession we see episodes in Billy's later life. At night, under the stars, in a quiet card game with his outlaw friends. 12:55 - Hunted by a posse led by his former friend, Pat Garrett, Billy is pursued. A running battle ensues. 14:48 - Billy is captured. A drunken celebration takes place. Billy in prison is, of course, followed by one of Billy's legendary escapes. 17:05 - Tired and worn in the desert, Billy rests with his girl. Starting from a deep sleep, he senses movement in the shadows. The posse has finally caught up with him. The mournful melody is decorated with tears from a solo violin 18:28 - Copland’s suite ends with an epilogue, “The Open Prairie Again,” and a return to the initial theme in the horns. The work culminates in a stirring climax for full orchestra.