Heavy drums and brass appear in a song from this ballet that its choreographer envisioned to be "like thunder."
Heavy drums and brass appear in a song from this ballet that its choreographer envisioned to be "like thunder." Another number is adapted from a  version of a popular song recorded by Alan Lomax and performed by William Hamilton Stepp. Oliver Smith designed the sets for this ballet, from which "four dance episodes" were later published in a separate suite. This ballet contains the pieces "Sis Joe" and "I Ride an Old Paint," during which the heroine of this ballet is dismayed to not find a (*) dance partner. A tune based on "Bonaparte's Retreat" plays during the end of this ballet, which contains a "Texas minuet" in "Saturday Night Waltz." The Cowgirl and the Wrangler kiss in this ballet, which opens with "Buckaroo Holiday" and ends with "Hoe-Down." Agnes de Mille choreographed, for 10 points, what ballet by Aaron Copland set in the American Southwest?
Heavy drums and brass appear in a song from this ballet that its choreographer envisioned to be "like thunder."
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