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From "The Red Pony" to "Rondino on the Name Gabriel Fauré" (4 works)
- The Red Pony (film)
- Form: Film score
- Date: 1948
- First performance: 8 March 1949
- Publisher: Unpublished
- Notes: Copland made an orchestral suite from this film in 1948
- Related digital items:
- The Red Pony (orchestral suite)
- Form: Orchestra
- Date: 1948
- First performance: 30 October 1948. Houston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Efrem Kurtz
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1951
- Timing: 24'
- Dedication: "to Erik Johns"
- Contents: I. Morning on the Ranch II. The Gift III. Dream March and Circus Music IV. Walk to the Bunkhouse V. Grandfather's Story VI. Happy Ending
- Notes: excerpts from the film score Copland thought of calling this "Children's Suite from The Red Pony." Correspondence relating to the film may be accessed through the entry on the film score
- Rodeo
- Form: Ballet
- Date: 1942
- Scenario: Agnes DeMille
- Choreography: Agnes DeMille
- First performance: 16 October 1942. New York. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
- Timing: 24'
- Notes: DeMille's provisional title, "The Courting at Burnt Ranch," sometimes shows up as a subtitle on programs. Copland prepared an orchestral suite, Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo, in 1942. Correspondence concerning the suite – more performed than the ballet proper and thus more written about – can be accessed through the entry for the suite
- Related digital items:
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, September 1, 1942.
- Rodeo [rough sketches]
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, November 14, 1942.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, March 10, 1950.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, October 9, 1952.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, June 14, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, October 19, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, November 1, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, November 12, 1945.
- Rondino on the Name Gabriel Fauré
- Form: String quartet
- Date: 1923-1924
- First performance: Fontainebleau. September 1924
- Publisher: Unpublished as an individual piece
- Date of publication: 4.5'
- Notes: this became the first movement of the Two Pieces for String Quartet or String Orchestra. It is one of many pieces written by various composers "sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré"; the Ravel Menuet is the best-known