Copland / Colorado S - Copland: An Outdoor Overture - Billy the Kid

Description: Copland / Colorado S - Copland: An Outdoor Overture - Billy the Kid - El Salon M Artist: Copland / Colorado Symphony / Litton Title: Copland: An Outdoor Overture - Billy the Kid - El Salon Mexico - Rodeo Condition: Format: SACD Release Date: 2016 Label: Bis UPC: 7318599921648 Genre: Classical Artists Details1. An Outdoor Overture2. Introduction: The Open Prairie3. Street in a Frontier Town4. Mexican Dance and Finale: Billy Kills His Mother's Murderer5. Prairie Night (Card Game at Night): Billy Cheats Garret at Cards; They Quarrel6. Gun Battle: Billy Is Captured By Garrett, Turned Sheriff7. Celebration8. Billy in Prison: Murder of the Prison Guard and Escape9. Billy in the Desert (Waltz)10. Billy's Death11. Billy's Funeral: Mourning Mexicans12. The Open Prairie Again13. El Salón México14. Buckaroo Holiday15. Corral Nocturne16. Ranch House Party17. Saturday Night Waltz18. Hoe-Down Having taken up the post of music director with the Colorado Symphony in 2013, Andrew Litton has chosen a highly fitting program for the orchestra's first recording on BIS: the Wild West, it's folk music, traditions and legends loom large in Aaron Copland's ballet scores Billy the Kid and Rodeo. The two works were the result of the composer's search during the early 1930's for a new musical language. Copland himself described his reasons for this as follows: 'An entirely new public for music had grown up around the radio and the phonograph. It made no sense to ignore them and to continue writing as if they did not exist. I felt that it was worth the effort to see if I couldn't say what I had to say in the simplest possible terms.' In the two ballets, this new direction can be felt in the immediacy of the music, but also in Copland's use of cowboy tunes. A similar approach, but with Mexican themes, characterizes the slightly earlier El Salón México, inspired by a visit to a dance-hall in Mexico and the atmosphere he experienced there. Whereas these three works belong to the most popular in Copland's entire production, the opening piece, An Outdoor Overture, is something of a rarity - especially on disc. Composed in the same year as Billy the Kid, the overture was part of an educational campaign with the slogan 'American Music for American Youth' and it's snappy rhythms and colorful orchestration will have made it as successful in it's original purpose as it is here, as a curtain raiser. The Colorado Symphony is obviously enjoying itself in this all-American program, as is it's conductor Andrew Litton, who joins the revelry as honky-tonk pianist in the Celebration section of Billy the Kid and the Ranch House Party in Rodeo, before bringing the disc to a rollicking end in that ballet's closing section, Hoe-Down.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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