Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

The Red Pony (1948)

music for the film by Louis Milestone after John Steinbeck, for orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1948
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, suite orchestrale tirée de la musique du film
Detailed formation
  • 2 flutes (also 2 piccolos), 2 oboes (also 1 English horn [ad lib.] ), 3 clarinets (also 1 bass clarinet), Eb clarinet [ad lib.] , 2 bassoons, 4 horns [ou 3] , 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 2 percussionists, harp, piano (also celesta), strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 30 October 1948
    Location:

    (suite orchestrale : six scènes, 24 minutes), États-Unis, Houston


    Performers:

    l'Orchestre symphonique de Houston, direction : Efrem Kurtz.