Aaron Copland - Billy the Kid - Concert Suite (1/3)

[MrJswift77]

this was used in the movie He Got Game!!!! by spike lee

[cookiebella512]

i always think about playing oregon trail whenever i hear copland

[nudist0885]

Maybe somebody can help me.

I'm looking for a piece that I think is a Copland piece.

I left a great description for it in the 4:08 version of "Fanfare For The Common Man" by Op139.

If anyone can help...Thank You

[harriter88]

this opening section is one the greatest things Copland ever wrote

[youmayfindithere]

6:40 on

[jamesthewineguy]

Copland's piece is able to exemplify simple and yet complex evocations. There is a definitive sense of early western music and a profound sense of panorama.

[MrBilldodd]

Great music but a completely misidentified image. It diminishes an otherwise nice video.

[peppersax]

2 people belong to "mediocracy anonymous".

[150mcl150]

5:41 to 5:49

best!!!

[tetekeke]

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[bego8112]

phaenomenal

[HOMEnHIGH]

1:12....doc holliday looks like Casey Affleck.....and billy the kid never met Jesse James in his life.....

[Nirvanarain]

@HOMEnHIGH He DID meet Jesse James, he was a pal with him and he was asked if he wanted to join his gang but he said no. Trainrobbing was nothing for Billy.

[squeakystool]

@Nirvanarain He never met Jesse James or robbed trains, yet he was invoved in the Lincoln county wars out of New Mexico, do your homework you'll see.

[PrettyPixieGirl101]

Love this piece AND love the pictures you've provided. Do you have references for where some of these pics are actually from? e.g. what towns these images are of?

[MasterMini8]

1 person missed the like button

[streiff100]

Copland, master genius of the baton and scribe of music! Can you hear that, you actually feel like your in a lonely southwestern desert waiting for Billy to return from a gunfight!



[McGrillah]

the images are great

[joel1975]

This beautiful music was pretty much the soundtrack for Spike Lee's 'He Got Game.'

It added so much emotion to the final scenes.

[jbeng1953]

The creater of every western movie sound track ever made! I mean that by influence.

Copeland is an American treasure! The American sound track!

[Hunsruck]

Just a haunting, beautiful work capturing the grit and drama of an era.

[gobluebuckeye]

Copland's music has a way of transforming your spirit like few other music can, true Americana

[blackhorse099]

Copland was such a freaking genius.

[heydanielbrou]

daniel brou

[Nirvanarain]

I love you now.

[blackdragon767]

Copland was a great composer, his music was very inspiring. 

[aeomus26]

6:10 (on the right) Wells Fargo? Wow they go way back =D

[illlcrazymethod]

when i hear this i think of the Spike Lee Joint (film), He Got Game

[utkigyu]

Real Naughty brides are there world5.info

[Pur3lySw33t]

Even someone who doesn't have much of an appreciation for classical music...would appreciate this piece. It's so diverse. I love it XD thx!

[heatblizzard]

Very nice western song and I mean V-E-R-Y nice.

It sucks YouTube has put ads on peoples videos without permission fom the uploader.

Even though YT is free that dosen't and should never excuse not showing curtesy.

May the laws of karma come back to YT

[rarepelican]

@heatblizzard It's free because of the ads.

[OhStylo]

The best part is "Prairie Night", just gives me goosebumps. It's just awesome. Btw the pic with Bowdre, Holliday, James and The Kid looks weird, coz none of them looks like they do on the other (newer?) pics you can find all over the web. But my guess is that this is one of the earliest, oldest pics taken, and all of them were like still almost teens. I mean esp. Doc looks so young in this one.

[calpatty1808]

I drove an 18 wheeler for 20+ years. I have driven across some of the barren roads out west and the north west. I would pop in this CD and let my mind escape the worries of the day and look out across a wild west backdrop of dancing colors and imagined cowboys and Indians living and riding their pony's. I could almost hear their voices as they rode away and i kept on rolling along. Copland must have been a Cowboy at heart.

[kunzi18]

@calpatty1808

wow

[aeomus26]

@calpatty1808 that's awesome!  =D

[richwes22]

@calpatty1808 I was in the Sandia mountains all alone driving listening to Aaron Copeland's- "our town" and felt the same way surrounded by beauty like his music.

[Pvtpepper7]

I was very pleased to hear this is the cinci pops! I went to see them a good number of times and I can't express my sorrow of the death of such a great conductor, Erich Kunzel.

[memphislaidtowaste]

great video

[volk22221]

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[Clara3192]

fuck yea, Billy the Kid ! Great piece to play in orchestra

[LongRiderRebel]

The supposed "regulators" photo at 1:07 is not of Billy the Kid or the other supposed famous western figures. That is a misidentified image from a known crook and image scammer from Missouri. I have some videos that explain it. Do not be fooled.

[Kyros]

@LongRiderRebel His reputation proceeds him! This video is definitely presenting his fake that was debunked right here on Youtube. I'm sure the creator of this vid didnt realise he got had though. Thanks for letting us know, Rebel!

[verstengenericks]

Damn, they brought out the CANNONS for this performance! jk...but the percussion is pretty darn, well, percussive. I like it--a far cry from its two-piano version origins. Thanks for posting this, my co-favorite Copland piece along with the Piano Variations.

[fafner44]

Thanks from Spain for posting this.

[MrREBELofSOUTH]

they say the pat never shot billy and let billy go to old mexico and say that pat shot him. a man caimed to be billy the kid and the man had died in 1950 it remains a mystery if he actually was billy the kid. if you watch young guns 2 it will tell yall about it

[Cupcakealex]

Aaron Copland...pure musical genius. Thanks for posting this American classic. I'he seen this performed in NYC with Agnes DeMille's fabulous choreography which only adds to the emotional impact of the music. Your video also adds a wonderful demension to the score. American genius...Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Geroge Gershwin, Scott Joplin...originals. Thanks again for the music and the memories.

[fraudutt]

He looks so much like Tom Higenson (Plain White T's)

[iAsteroidPlanetSmash]

Astounding how Copeland was capable of tuning into and composing from the American collective consciousness from Historical precedents

It's all here the nostalgia memories sentimentalities drama suspense anger elation

Sadness great Joyfulness

Then the Reminder

Of

Mortality

[strela]

I will chime in with a really strange thought. I love Copland, and I am a stickler for English grammar and spelling, the American version! Majority of the responses for this vid have "American Received English"! I love it. I can speak on this for hours!

American English is SOO much better than the British, to be honest.

[stefanpalen96]

Great work I wish our high school orchestra could play this

[sarahdom26]

20th Century

[TearTaker]

7:33 on is beautiful! I heard it in my music class and had to go hunting to hear it again! It blends consanace and dissanace perfectly.. imo atleast

[bones86]

sounds like something from red dawn

[airborn114]

nothing beats listening to copland while sitting quietly on a sunny spring morning. nothing.

[BlueRoseRocketBand2]

We move so fast into the furture. Convinced to look only forward and buy buy buy the ever new thing. Never to turn around to see and hear the vast treasure of our rich past.

So hit the brakes and pull over to the side of your life and take a moment to cherish that from which you have come. Close your eyes and listen to magic.

[uktravbarr]

Haydn and Mozart are probably the most renowned pure classical composers (Beethoven started to incorporate some romantic traits towards the end of his life.). Typically the classical period is considered from 1750 to 1820.

[Sheriff1Dustin]

how is that relevant to Copland, copland was a 20th century composer. He wasn't a classical composer or romantic or post-romantic. He was a 20th century composer. An era of new ways of creating music.

On a side note, this song in the video is probably one of my favorite pieces of music that was made before my time.

[classicalmusic6]

5:22 is so exciting!

[BASSPLAYA1112]

one of the best american composers of all time

[ryanke07]

Out of curiosity, are you American? I think it's fair to say that most American listeners wouldn't hesitate to drop the "American" in front of composer and just call him one of the greatest composers of all time.

For me, as an American, I can't help but feel an immense pride in my country (really just this side of the world in general, not just the United States) when I listen to Copland's music. He was our direct answer to the European dominated Classical style.

[BASSPLAYA1112]

yes, i am american. but what im trying to say is that out of the american composers he is one of the best. like one would say that hector berloiz is one o the greatest french composers of all time. and i totally agree that he broke the stereotype that classical music is all european. it has a strong western feel to it.

[Gtwo13]

He Got Game

[MrWolfmantim]

Tigersimmmer, then when according to your classifications was the era of classical music? It does not make sense to me to say that neither Bach, nor Chopin, not Copland wrote and performed classical music. Aren't your categories sub-categories of classical music?

[strela]

Pepelopolus...agreed! I love this music, it captures our history. My feet never took Mexico...I want to appreciate the history and hope of the Southern border

[tiamc06]

TMC-20th Century. This piece just shows that Copland really is one of the greatest American composers ever.

[jonboyiscool]

I dont wanna sound like I wuss but this sond almost make me tear up lol.

[billmoney1]

USA USA!!!

[musicnut24]

Copland i still think is the greatest american composer we ever had.

[SordidGuy]

DITTO!!!

[Teddyb1939]

@musicnut24 I agree 100%.I can`t seem to win people over to the greatness[my opinion]of Aaron Copland.

[a1Drummer07]

@musicnut24 He is my favorite by far. I am most familiar with him so that kind of influences my decision, but I just love his music!

[spacepatrolman]

@musicnut24 what kind of music did aaron copland write country and western? folk ? jazz ?americana?atonal?spanish?ball­et? film?symphonic? chamber?

[JayRose1000]

the ending of "he got game". great movie btw

[Epogdous]

Thank you so much!!

[Halfmoon67]

This music is clearly one of my favourite classical music ever. This is so intense!

Just AWESOME!

[tigerswimmer009]

@Halfmoon67 Just to let you know, this is not classical music. The classical era was from 1750- 1820. This was composed in 1938, making it 20th Century.

[SordidGuy]

FYI - "Classical Music" is WHATEVER a person perceives it to be!!! You need not demean people - It simply magnifies your lack of intelligence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[tigerswimmer009]

@SordidGuy I didn't "demean" anyone. The eras of music ARE classified into categories: Bach wrote "Baroque" music, for example, while Chopin was a "Romantic" composer, and Aaron Copland was "20th Century".

These eras of music relate to more than just the sounds of the pieces. They reflect broad changes in society and culture that influenced the way music was written, performed, and heard.

How's that for "lack of intelligence"? Learn your music history.

[Savior20061]

@tigerswimmer009 According to my music book you are very much correct sir. =D

[a1Drummer07]

@tigerswimmer009 Although you are right, must you flaunt it around so pridefully? I'll overlook the fact that everything you've said here is Musicology 101 for now.

[dragonettirockstop]

@tigerswimmer009 20th century? I don't know of any "20th century" period. I thought it went to "avant garde", "modernism", and then "post modernism". i could be wrong though.

[rosesfororion]

This is the recording I used to own. I've missed it.

[billystewart4]

Glad you enjoyed. This certainly has some pieces that will remain with one for a day or two; but I don't mind that. :-)

[MixItWell]

Billystewart4,

Do you happen to know where were these pieces recorded? I assume you extracted the music from "Copland: The Music of America", correct? Does the CD mention anything?

[billystewart4]

MixItWell,

I have several versions of "Billy the Kid" but I'm fairly sure it did come from the disc you reference. I can't, however, find the disc (I always rip my discs to my computer because that is where I listen) so I'm unsure of where it was recorded.

Apologies...

Best,

Billy

[MixItWell]

Thank you!

I'll try to find out.

Cheers,

MIW

[Pepelopolus]

@billystewart4

I am Mexican. My feet never took your land. But western history is close to us. Billy the Kid spent some weeks here, at Chihuahua. This great Ballet is not just American. Depicts the profound contrast between lifestyles at a southern frontier. I am a Copland fan. This is a very original recording. I found new details compared with Dorati (the one I have). Other recordings are Eduardo Mata, Enrique Batiz and Bernstein. But this is my chosen one. Really thanks!

[mwp62]

And American is not just USA, Mexico has just as much right to be called America as the US and I agree Western History is common heritage to both the US and Mexico.

I am from California, of Anglo European descent, but have two foster Uncles, by adoption, from Mexicali. I also am a big Copland fan and like how this music reminds of us of our commonality in the West.

[Glinkaism1]

@MixItWell I'm guessing the Cincy Concert Hall.

[jazzytds]

@billystewart4 I heard this for the very first time at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, I was six and found myself going to the library to find the album. I listened to it on my father's old console, I was a child of the sixties, and I listened to the sorrow, the joy, the exaltation and beauty that Copland created...he was a true master.

[RImusclebear1]

@rosesfororion darling for us Copie fans its on angel!

[rosesfororion]

One of the most exquisite pieces of music in the entire world. I adore Copland's music. A true American original.

[romanticeralover]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!!!

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR IT ON YOUTUBE FOR SO LONG!

This is one of my favorite Copland pieces...

:-D

[billystewart4]

Glad to oblige! I love Copland and have been, and will be, posting a lot of his stuff that is not presently on YouTube.

Thanks for the note.

Best,

Billy

[SwangoBuddy]

Thanks for posting this!! I remember hearing part of it on the radio a while back and thought it was awesome. I wanted to buy the mp3 but Amazon's "preview" sound clip is super short, so I couldn't tell if it was the right song or not. This helps a ton! :)

[billystewart4]

Very glad you enjoyed and that it helped in your search. I love this entire composition. I haven't heard the original for the ballet, but this Suite is just beautiful.

Best to you,

Billy