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From "Ballade of Ozzie Powell" to "Billy the Kid (Suite)" (3 works)
- Ballade of Ozzie Powell
- Form: Mixed chorus and piano
- Date: December 1936-January 1937
- Text: Langston Hughes: "Ballad of Ozie Powell"
- Publisher: Unpublished
- Publisher: Unpublished
- Timing: circa 2'
- Notes: unfinished. Music was used in Music for Radio. Ozie Powell – not "Ozzie" – was one of the Scottsboro Boys
- Billy the Kid
- Form: Ballet
- Date: 1938
- Scenario: Lincoln Kirstein
- Choreography: William Loring
- First performance: 16 October 1938. Chicago. Ballet Caravan
- Publisher: Not published as a ballet
- Timing: 35'
- Notes: Copland arranged a Suite from Billy the Kid in 1938. Correspondence involving publication and performances of the suite may be accessed through the entry for the suite
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- Billy the kid [sketches]
- Appalachian Spring
- About Billy the Kid
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Olga Naoumoff, October 10, 1939.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 18, 1939.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, December 23, 1939.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 2, 1941.
- Billy the Kid (Suite)
- Form: Orchestra. Arranged for two pianos; excerpts arranged for piano
- Date: 1938
- First performance: 9 November 1940. New York. NBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. William Steinberg
- Publisher: (Orchestra): Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1941
- Timing: 22'
- Contents: (Titles taken from two-piano version): I. The Open Prairie II. In a Frontier Town A. Cowboys with Lassos B. Mexican Dance and Finale III. Billy and His Sweetheart IV. Celebration of Billy's Capture V. Billy's Demise VI. The Open Prairie Again
- Notes: the suite is in fact continuous. The orchestral version as published has no titles besides "Introduction: The Open Prairie" and "Scene IA: Street in a Frontier Town." Various other versions supply the following variant titles: for IIA, "Cowboys Amble By." For III. "Prairie Night and Waltz from Billy the Kid."
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