Aaron Copland - Billy the Kid - Concert Suite (3/3)

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Aaron Copland ~ 1900-1990 This is the complete Orchestral Suite, not the Ballet Suite. Copland's "Billy the Kid" was commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein for his ballet company, Ballet Caravan, in 1938. The hope was to create an "American" ballet, to counteract the Russian tradition so popular in ballet for centuries. The result, and I'll quote as I know the music but don't know ballet, was, "the first full-fledged American ballet in style and form as well as content," according to the ...