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  1. A year after the ballet, Copland created a 20-minute suite from Billy the Kid, utilizing most sections from the original ballet, except the now-famous Waltz.

  2. Copland Conducts: Rodeo; Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

  3. May 26, 2023 · The French composer Darius Milhaud saw Rodeo and Billy the Kid as authentically Copland, and very American. There was, said Milhaud—who himself immigrated to America to escape Nazi rule in 1940—a “feeling for the soil . . . the wide plains with their soft colorings, where the cowboy sings his nostalgic songs.”.

  4. 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.

  5. Feb 16, 2024 · Find release reviews and credits for Copland Conducts: Rodeo; Billy the Kid - Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra on AllMusic - 2024

  6. This page lists all recordings of Billy the Kid - Suite by Aaron Copland (1900–90).

  7. When Lincoln Kirstein and Eugene Loring asked for a cowboy ballet for Ballet Caravan, Copland wrote Billy the Kid using a handful of cowboy folk tunes. Aaron Copland About