Copland / Billy the Kid (Complete Ballet): 2/3

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Billy the Kid - Complete Ballet (1938) 00:00 - Prairie Night (Card game at night) 02:47 - Gun Battle 04:38 - Celebration (after Billy’s capture) Antal Dorati conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. Recorded by Mercury in 1961. “The career of the notorious outlaw William Bonney has given rise to a multitudinous folklore. It was at the suggestion of Lincoln Kirstein, director of the American Ballet Caravan, that Copland undertook the composition of a ballet inspired by Bonney’s