Copland / Billy the Kid (Complete Ballet): 1/3

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Billy the Kid - Complete Ballet (1938) 00:00 - Introduction. The open Prairie 03:37 - Street in a Frontier Town 07:07 - Mexican Dance and Finale 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 e