FTP identify this work based on Burn's saga of William Bonney, a ballet by Aaron Copland.
First performed by the Ballet Caravan in Chicago in 1938, it was turned into a concert suite two years later. Lincoln Kirstein paired the choreographer Eugene Loring with its composer and the result was this work that opens with a vivid sonic depiction of prairie life followed by a processional and into the first movement "Street in a Frontier Town." The rest of the the title figure's tale is told using cowboy tunes like "The Old Chisholm Trail,," "Trouble for the Range Cook," and "The Dying Cowboy," the last of which is played during the scene at Fort Summers when Pat Garett shoots him. FTP identify this work based on Burn's saga of William Bonney, a ballet by Aaron Copland.
First performed by the Ballet Caravan in Chicago in 1938, it was turned into a concert suite two years later.
Billy the Kid