{"product_id":"18537-copland-aaron-waltz-from-billy-the-kid-signed-score","title":"Copland, Aaron. (1900–1990) Waltz from Billy the Kid - SIGNED SCORE","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eUpright 4to.  Signed full score of the waltz from the important American composer's \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eBilly the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, in the 1957 orchestration, signed \"Aaron Copland \/ 1977\" at the head of the music.  [PN] D. E. 99.  Some light wear at edges, but overall in very fine condition.  17 pp. bound with staples.  9 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm).\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\"In an article for RCA Records in 1950, Aaron Copland (1900–1990) described how he came to write \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eBilly the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, recalling that it was ‘the first time that I attempted to tap the rich source of American folk music and give it a full orchestral setting’. The idea for the ballet came from Lincoln Kirstein, who commissioned Copland to write it for his Ballet Caravan in 1938, in collaboration with the choreographer Eugene Loring. With wry humour, Copland wrote that ‘having been born in Brooklyn myself, I was rather wary of tackling a cowboy subject. But Kirstein was persuasive … and tucked two collections of Western tunes under my arm. I had worked with Mexican folk tunes in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eEl salón México\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, and the idea of seeing what I could do with homegrown ones helped Kirstein win the argument. Thus in the summer of 1938 I found myself writing a cowboy ballet in Paris, France.’ Though mostly written in Paris by a Jewish composer from Brooklyn, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eBilly the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e quickly became the archetypal musical evocation of the landscapes and people of the American West.\" (Nigel Simeone, hyperion-records.co.uk, 2015)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093685948575,"sku":"18537","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Copland_Aaron_Signed_Score_18537a.jpg?v=1722189688","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/18537-copland-aaron-waltz-from-billy-the-kid-signed-score","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}